Federal focus on a chemical in degreasing and dry-cleaning products has attorneys keeping a close eye out for more air toxics scrutiny from the EPA—and wondering when it will ever come.
The Environmental Protection Agency added 1-bromopropane to its list of Hazardous Air Pollutants, or HAPs, last month, the first chemical the agency has added since the list was created in 1990.
The add has a “domino effect” of regulatory implications for industry already operating under HAP standards, according to Holland & Hart LLP partner Emily Schilling.
“You may be subject to specific standards for 1-BP in the future, but ...