Environmentalists move to intervene in methylene chloride suit

Environmentalists are asking an appellate court in Washington, DC, to allow them to intervene in industry’s challenge to EPA’s ban on consumer uses of paint-stripping products containing methylene chloride (MC), a move that may ultimately lead the case to be consolidated with environmentalists’ separate suit in an appellate court in New York. Environmental groups June 14 filed a motion to intervene in Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc. (HSIA) v. EPA and Andrew Wheeler . According to the motion, neither HSIA...