As RMP Rule Promulgated, Groups Sue Over EPA's Facility Safety Rollback

摘要

A coalition of environmentalists has filed suit against EPA's rollback of an Obama-era regulation tightening facility safety mandates on the same day the measure was promulgated, arguing the Trump administration has removed nearly all disaster-prevention measures and weakened many of the other protections that were in the 2017 rule. Led by the environmental law firm Earthjustice, a coalition of 13 environmental and citizen groups Dec. 19 filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, petitioning the court to review the agency's final "Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs (RMP) under the Clean Air Act."