EPA decision preserving chlorpyrifos uses draws suits

Farmworker and environmental groups, along with Democratic attorneys general, are suing EPA over its decision to preserve the remaining allowed uses of the common agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos after the agency last month denied the groups’ objections to EPA’s denial of their 2017 petition seeking to ban the chemical. The groups filed an Aug. 7 petition for review , in the U.S. Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit, challenging the agency’s rejection of their objections to its 2017 denial of their...