Tag: Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112(r)

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EPA’s 20-Month Delay of RMP Amendments Vacated by Court

By William C. Schillaci Aug 24, 2018 Regulatory Developments

Updated: Aug 24, 2018

Stating that the Trump EPA cannot use a general provision of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to negate a specific provision of the Act, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an Agency final rule that sought to delay by 20 months the effective date of the Obama EPA’s […]

RMP Amendments Require Safer Technology Assessment

By William C. Schillaci Jan 3, 2017 Chemicals

Updated: Jan 3, 2017

Obama EPA’s most consequential actions to prevent accidents at facilities with hazardous chemicals have been written out in the Agency’s just released final amendments to regulations implementing Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112(r), more commonly called the Risk Management Program (RMP).