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The article reports on the rule issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will set limits on emissions of hazardous air pollutants from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production facilities. EPA states that the equipment that controls vinyl chloride will also get rid of hazardous air pollutants. Moreover, it notes that environmental groups filed a legal action against EPA for not specifying the limits to other toxic air pollutants from the PVC plants.

Reports on a federal court ruling which held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to properly regulate hazardous air pollutants in factories that produce polyvinyl chloride. Claims of environmental groups against the agency's 2002 regulations setting emission limits for the air pollutant.