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EPA’s RMP Rollback Rule Faces Likely Court Test Over Legal Justifications

By Suzanne Yohannan
December 17, 2019 at 05:41 PM
EPA is facing likely challenges over its rule rolling back Obama-era chemical facility safety requirements, with early signs pointing to the parties battling over the adequacy of the agency’s legal justifications, including its claim that the original rule failed to sufficiently weigh an arson finding at a key industrial incident and its cost-benefit analysis.

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