The Natural Resources Defense Council doesn’t buy CEA and ITI Cou...
The Natural Resources Defense Council doesn’t buy CEA and ITI Council assurances, made during a Thursday phone briefing with reporters (CED Jan 29 p1), that they have no plans to file lawsuits in places other than New York City…
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to stop producer responsibility-based e-waste laws from taking effect, Kate Sinding, senior NRDC attorney, told us in an e- mail. “Why should we be asked to take on good faith that manufacturers have no intention of challenging laws in other states?” Sinding asked. “If it were in fact true that they had no intention of challenging producer responsibility broadly, why did they file a lawsuit that contains no fewer than five constitutional challenges that go to the very heart of the takeback approach? Why not just challenge the specific provisions in the New York City program they claim go further than those in other states? And why did they solicit an amicus brief filed by half a dozen trade associations for other types of products for which producer responsibility is now being applied in various states? The only plausible answer is that the manufacturers do, in fact, want to put the fundamentals of producer responsibility on trial.”