Judge Tries To ‘Wrap My Head’ Around Complex TSCA ‘Transparency’ Suit

A federal district judge said she is “struggling to wrap my head around” the novel legal arguments and conflicting procedural requests at issue in environmentalists’ long-pending suit over transparency in the TSCA new-chemicals review program, during a May 1 hearing that marked the first concrete action in the case since early 2023. Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia did not announce a ruling after the hearing in Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), et...