Unions, ADAO, Employers Launch Court Challenges To EPA Asbestos Rule

Chemical industry groups, labor unions and a prominent public health group have filed separate petitions asking four different appellate courts to review EPA’s final TSCA risk management rule phasing out ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos, setting up a high-stakes lottery to determine which court will ultimately hear the precedent-setting case. Both a coalition of labor unions led by the United Steelworkers and the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) filed challenges to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) asbestos rule on...