Employers Target Methylene Chloride Limit, PPE In Sweeping Legal Challenge

Industry trade groups and individual companies are asking the 5th Circuit to scrap EPA’s rule governing methylene chloride for a litany of reasons, saying the agency ignored research on the chemical’s dangers, improperly refused to consider their workers’ use of protective gear and misapplied science to craft a strict workplace exposure limit, among other claims. Industry parties’ Oct. 9 opening brief in East Fork Enterprises, et al., v. EPA sets out sweeping arguments for the U.S. Court of Appeals...