California Court Rejects Industry Legal Challenge of SCAQMD VOC Limits
LOS ANGELES — An Orange County (CA) court recently rejected an industry challenge to new VOC restrictions on architectural and industrial-maintenance coatings imposed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
Judge William F. McDonald of the Orange County Superior Court upheld lower VOC limits on several types of coatings enacted in 1999 by the SCAQMD, and said an industry lawsuit challenging the limits failed to show that the limits would require the use of inferior or inadequate coatings products.