Parties Oppose EPA’s Sought-After Stay Of Asbestos Ban Rule Challenges

( February 14, 2025, 2:39 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Environmental Protection Agency asked the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to stay a challenge to an asbestos ban so that it can comply with an executive order requiring review of all rules issued in the past four years.  But in a Feb. 13 opposition, an asbestos disease support group and a workers’ group told the court that the case is developed enough that it can proceed toward oral argument while the review occurs and without delay to a case requiring a quick resolution....