Environmental NGOs are suing EPA, asking a California federal district court to essentially take over EPA’s pesticide program because EPA allegedly failed to meet all its pesticide obligations under the Endangered Species Act. On February 21, 2012, several industry interveners filed a motion to dismiss the NGO plaintiffs’ complaint. The interveners include CropLife America and the American Chemistry Council.

On March 6, 2012, the plaintiff NGOs filed two pleadings with the court in opposition to the industry interveners’ motion to dismiss.

First, the plaintiff NGOs filed an opposition to the industry interveners’ renewed motion to intervene during the liability phase of the case.  The court had previously granted industry intervention as to the remedy phase of the case, and denied without prejudice their motions to

intervene in the liability phase.  The industry motion to dismiss affects all phases of the case.

Second, the plaintiff NGOs filed an opposition to the industry motion to lift the stay of litigation that the court had ordered to allow settlement negotiations.  The NGOs want the stay to continue so that they can try to settle the case with the government.

● Click below to read NGO opposition to industry intervention

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●Click below to read NGO opposition to lifting the litigation stay

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