A federal appeals court temporarily halted a lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that banned all consumer and many commercial and industrial uses of perchloroethylene.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Friday granted a stay the Environmental Protection Agency requested last month so it could revise aspects of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) rule including its workplace existing chemical exposure limit, or ECEL, of 0.14 parts per million.
Perchloroethylene is used as a solvent and degreaser in industrial settings like metal cleaning, and as a raw material in the production of other chemicals, such as refrigerants and ...
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