EPA Withdraws Motion To Stay Challenge To Asbestos Ban Rule

( July 15, 2025, 8:04 AM EDT) -- NNEW ORLEANS — The Environmental Protection Agency withdrew its motion seeking a six-month stay of challenges to a rule banning the last remaining uses of chrysotile asbestos in the United States, saying it no longer intends to conduct notice-and-comment rulemaking and would instead proposed an Aug. 8 deadline for motions governing further proceedings....