| As US EPA Coronavirus
Deregulation Is Sued SDNY Litigants Leave It
To The Papers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 6 – The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency on March 26,
citing the Coronavirus
pandemic, allowed companies to
move to only internal
monitoring of noncompliance
with regulations and tell EPA
about it later, only if asked.
Environmental groups on April
1 filed an emergency petition
for rulemaking with EPA,
opposing this.
After EPA
inaction, they have sued in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York, whose Chief Judge
Colleen McMahon held a
conference on the case on May
6. Inner City Press covered
it.
Judge McMahon invited
plaintiffs to use the
opportunity to describe their
case; they said they preferred
to stand on their papers.
Perhaps journalists in the
environmental field prefer to
simply read.
In the docket now
are Catskill Mountainkeeper,
Center for Coalfield Justice,
Clean Water Action, Coming
Clean, Environmental Justice
Health Alliance, Flint Rising,
Indigenous Environmental
Network, Just Transition
Alliance, Los Jardines
Institute, Natural Resources
Defense Council, Public
Citizen, Southeast
Environmental Task Force,
Texas Environmental Justice
Advocacy Services, West Harlem
Environmental Action, Inc.,
Water You Fighting
For. Judge McMahon
said while she was not
scheduling oral argument, she
may pose questions to the side
by filing them in the docket.
Inner City Press will be
monitoring it.
The case is NRDC
et al. v. Assistant
Administrator Susan Parker
Bodine, et al., 20-cv-3058
(McMahon).
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