BEYOND PESTICIDES/NATIONAL COALITION v. WHITMAN

No. 02-2419 (RJL).

294 F.Supp.2d 1 (2003)

BEYOND PESTICIDES/NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST THE MISUSE OF PESTICIDES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Christine T. WHITMAN, Administrator of United States Environmental Protection Agency, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paula Naomi Dinerstein, Lobel, Novins & Lamont, Washington, DC, for Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Center for Environmental Health, Joseph S. Pager, Rosanne M. Prager.

Mary K. O'Melveny, Communications Workers of America, Washington, DC, for Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

Angeline Purdy, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environ. Defense Section, F. James Handley, Handley Environ. Law, Michele L. Walter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Christine T. Whitman.

W. Caffey Norman, III, Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, DC, for Pentachlorophenol Task Force.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

LEON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction1 claiming that the defendant, Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA," "agency") Administrator Christine T. Whitman ("defendant"), has failed to suspend or cancel the registrations of all products containing pentachlorophenol ("penta"), a chemical commonly used as a wood preservative in utility...

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