Let Courts—Not Biden EPA—Review Chemical Risk Issue, Groups Say

摘要

A pattern is emerging as a second nonprofit coalition objects to the Biden administration’s request to redo a Trump-era chemical risk evaluation without awaiting a federal court rulingthat would shape EPA’s chemical policies in this and future administrations.Just as in the first case, the groups say issues such as environmental justice and worker safety that are involved in the risk evaluation are too important to wait on.“Dodging the question today guarantees it will recur tomorrow,” the coalition of environmental and labor groups told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit June 18.The coalition opposes the Environmental Protection Agency’s May 28 motion asking the court to return a risk evaluation of three flame retardants for reconsideration and possiblerevision.