Kimberly-Clark Wants Court to Block D.C. Wipes Law

A federal judge tried to understand why he should agree to Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s request to block the nation’s first-ever flushable wipes requirements when the District of Columbia hasn’t even written the rules to implement them.

“How do we do that without even knowing what the requirements are?” Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Dec. 13 asked attorneys for Kimberly-Clark, a leading global maker of tissues and moist wipes, including the flushable varieties.

Kimberly-Clark has sought a preliminary injunction that would prevent the law, which requires that wipes labeled “flushable” ...