The Nationwide Affiliation of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) succeeded on the afternoon of Feb. 6 in securing a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Oregon’s Plastic Air pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, broadly referred to as the EPR act.
The injunction prevents Oregon’s Division of Environmental High quality from implementing the Act towards NAW Members till the courtroom guidelines on the deserves. The U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Oregon agreed with NAW that the regulation’s opaque regulatory scheme raises critical questions on whether or not the Act violates the Due Course of and Dormant Commerce Clauses in the US Structure.
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“This ruling is a big victory for NAW members, who face imminent and irreparable hurt beneath the Act, together with unrecoverable compliance prices, aggressive distortions, and the danger of steep civil penalties,” stated Eric Hoplin, President and CEO of NAW. “It is a main win for NAW member corporations who’ve been dramatically impacted by the exorbitant charges imposed beneath the regulation by the Round Motion Alliance, NAW seems ahead to presenting its case on the deserves when the Courtroom hears our case on July 13.”
NAW filed a movement for a preliminary injunction again on Nov. 25, 2025, asking the courtroom to pause all obligations beneath the EPR Act, together with reporting and fee necessities. The submitting argued that NAW members face imminent and irreperable hurt, together with unrecoverable compliance prices, aggressive distortions and the specter of substantial civil penalties. In that November submitting, NAW burdened that the primary spherical of EPR invoices issued in July 2025 revealed charges considerably greater than publicly projected, alongside complicated and unclear obligations inside multistate provide chains and dangers of penalties of as much as $25,000 per day for noncompliance.
