On July 30, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily halted litigation over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) updated Risk Management Program (RMP) rule...
On July 30, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit temporarily halted litigation over the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) updated Risk
Management Program (RMP) rule and granted a four-month abeyance.
The final RMP rule was
published on March 22, 2024.
The order granting the
abeyance allows EPA time to reconsider the RMP rule while
addressing a petition for
reconsideration from industry groups that challenges several of
its provisions. This provides EPA with an opportunity to adjust or
rollback the new rule, particularly if there is an administration
change based on the presidential election in November.
Substantively, the petitioners argue that the new RMP rule
imposes excessive and unnecessary burdens on facilities and are
challenging several aspects of the updated rule, including its
requirement for facilities to conduct Safer Technology and
Alternatives Analyses and its expanded mandates on
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