EPA Asks Courts To Delay Asbestos, New-Chemicals Framework Litigation

EPA is asking federal courts to stay for 120 days consolidated challenges to the Biden-era TSCA rule phasing out chrysotile asbestos to limit workplace exposures and the new-chemicals “framework” rule governing how new chemical reviews are conducted while incoming Trump appointees determine how they want to proceed. If granted, the requests would delay both suits until June 11, longer than EPA has requested for earlier stays on Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) litigation over Biden-era rules on trichloroethylene (TCE), its...