The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to delay amendments to its Risk Management Program adopted in the wake of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant disaster.
The EPA under the Trump administration delayed the regulation several times and promulgated a final rule in June 2017 to delay its implementation for 20 months. But in July 2017, a group of 11 state attorneys general sued the EPA for delaying the regulation and the D.C. Circuit ruled in their…
