Court Dismisses Private-Citizen Suit Against Inhance: On April 6, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit brought by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to prevent Inhance Technologies USA (Inhance) from generating PFAS when fluorinating plastic containers. According to the court’s April 6, 2023, opinion, Inhance filed a motion to dismiss the case brought by CEH and PEER, “arguing that the TSCA’s diligent-prosecution bar requires dismissal of this separate action.” The court found that CEH and PEER failed to prove that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is not “diligently prosecuting” the action. The court granted Inhance’s motion, dismissing the case without prejudice. According to an April 7, 2023, PEER press release, PEER and CEH will now move to intervene in DOJ’s suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. More information is available in our April 11, 2023, blog item.
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