EPA moves to send methylene chloride challenge to 2nd Circuit

EPA is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to transfer industry’s challenge over the agency’s recent ban of consumer sales of the paint-stripping chemical methylene chloride to the 2nd Circuit, where environmentalists and labor groups previously filed their own challenges to EPA’s rule. In a July 12 motion , Justice department attorneys representing EPA write that they have conferred with industry attorneys, as well as with counsel to environmentalists, who are seeking to intervene...