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  • 1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Pat Rizzuto

    The EPA asked a federal appeals court for 30 more days to decide how the new leadership would like to proceed in a lawsuit challenging the the agency’s 2024 rule that made two commonly detected “forever chemicals” hazardous Superfund substances.

  • 1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Pat Rizzuto

    A federal appeals court has given the EPA one month—far less time than it sought—to revise its analysis that concluded 1,4-dioxane must be regulated because it has too much potential to cause cancer and other problems. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order on Friday pausing a lawsuit filed by Union Carbide Corp. until June 30.

  • 1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Pat Rizzuto

    The EPA is asking a federal appeals court to indefinitely pause Union Carbide Corp.'s lawsuit challenging the agency’s 2024 risk evaluation for 1,4-dioxane so the agency can redo that assessment yet again. The Environmental Protection Agency asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to pause the lawsuit for up to two years so the agency can reconsider certain science issues underlying the chemical’s risk evaluation.

  • 1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Pat Rizzuto

    The EPA is asking a federal appeals court to indefinitely pause Union Carbide Corp.'s lawsuit challenging the agency’s 2024 risk evaluation for 1,4-dioxane so the agency can redo that assessment yet again. The Environmental Protection Agency asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to pause the lawsuit for up to two years so the agency can reconsider certain science issues underlying the chemical’s risk evaluation.

  • 3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Pat Rizzuto

    PPG Industries Inc. and companies making battery parts have petitioned the EPA to increase the workplace exposure limit for a solvent set by the agency in a regulation the companies are challenging in court. The Environmental Protection Agency posted the petitions on its website shortly before a May 27 deadline to submit to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit a “substantive response” to concerns the industry groups have raised in a lawsuit, USW v.

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Pat Rizzuto
Pat Rizzuto @patrizzuto
24 Feb 25

Instructions federal staff being given vary. https://t.co/pv0KCG4dCd

Pat Rizzuto
Pat Rizzuto @patrizzuto
10 Feb 25

Quite the example of good intentions and actions with, nontheless, unexpected, potentially harmful outcomes, from @JenHijaz https://t.co/D0auK9F5IP

Pat Rizzuto
Pat Rizzuto @patrizzuto
5 Feb 25

This rural New Mexico community where some people's roots goback to homesteaders, is challenging a bedrock legal principle: the sovereign can’t be sued without its consent. It hasn't consented to PFAS lawsuits. Hearing set for Feb. 7. https://t.co/Ewp7yEKXUq via @climate