Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization v. Wheeler
A district court denied EPA's motion to dismiss a challenge to its denial of a petition to revise reporting requirements for asbestos under the Chemical Data Reporting Rule. Health and environmental groups challenged EPA's denial of their petition under TSCA and the APA, arguing that the petition wa...
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Ninth Circuit dismissed in part, granted in part, and denied in part petitions to review EPA's 2017 Risk Evaluation Rule, which established a process for evaluating the risks of chemical substances. Environmental and health groups argued the rule violated TSCA's requirement that EPA evaluate ris...
Electric Utility Wildfire Liability Reform in California
As climate change worsens, so does the risk of wildfires. This is especially so in already hot, dry areas such as the western United States. Adding to this problem is the rapid growth of the wildland-urban interface (WUI).