District court urged to scrap EPA's pesticide applicators rule delay

Environmentalists are urging a federal district court to scrap EPA's one-year delay of an Obama-era rule bolstering training requirements for applicators of certain pesticides, arguing the delay allows for risks to applicators and violates federal law, after an appeals court declined advocates' calls to clarify jurisdiction for the suit. This summer, farmworker and environmental groups filed a pair of lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's delay of the Obama...