EPA Asks to Extend Stay in Case to Revise Perchloroethylene Rule

The EPA is asking a federal appeals court to further pause litigation over the Biden-era perchloroethylene rule while the agency proposes to revise that rule’s worker protection safety standard.

The Department of Justice, which represents the Environmental Protection Agency, told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Friday its proposed rule would revise the workplace existing chemical exposure limit, or ECEL, of 0.14 parts per million that the agency set to protect workers from kidney, liver, and immune system damage among other potential harms. Possible alternatives include a 0.5 ppm limit, the agency said in July.

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