Environmental, Industry Groups File Suit Over EPA Chromium Electroplating Standards

Environmental and industry groups are challenging an Environmental Protection Agency final rule that strengthened air toxics standards for chromium electroplating facilities (National Ass’n for Surface Finishing v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 12-1459; Clean Air Council v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 12-1460).

Earthjustice filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Nov. 19 on behalf of the Clean Air Council, California Communities Against Toxics, and the Sierra Club and intends to argue that the standards are too weak to protect communities from emissions of hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen. ...