It’s not true that CE manufacturers threatened lawsuits in severa...
It’s not true that CE manufacturers threatened lawsuits in several states that enacted extended-producer- responsibility based e-waste laws, CEA said. Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Kate Sinding made that allegation in a sworn declaration Oct. 9 opposing CE makers’…
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motion for a preliminary injunction to block New York City’s e-waste law from taking effect. Eighteen states have enacted e-waste laws and another 13 have laws “pending,” Sinding’s declaration said. Though “industry threatened suit in some of these jurisdictions” to block the laws, “it never followed through and instead has been complying with the laws,” the declaration said, mentioning Maine and Washington as examples. The administrators of the Maine and Washington e- waste programs supported sworn declarations of their own backing the city in its fight against an injunction, but neither repeated Sinding’s claim that manufacturers threatened suit to block their laws. Sinding’s claim about the threat of lawsuits is “news to me,” Parker Brugge, CEA vice president of environmental affairs and industry sustainability, told us. “Frankly, that’s a laughable response,” Sinding told us in reply. She suggested in an e- mail that we contact “the folks in MN, WA and ME who had (and in some cases continue to have) to contend with threatened litigation.” Officials in Maine, Minnesota and Washington didn’t respond right away to our requests for comment.