Draft Bill Seeks To Scrap ESA Pesticide Analysis As Trump Slows Reviews

Environmentalists are faulting draft legislation backed by the pesticide industry that would limit EPA's reviews of pesticides' harms to endangered species, while the Trump administration urges a federal court to delay by two years a deadline for completing the first reviews under an Obama-era process that industry is aiming to scrap. “This proposed bill would eliminate all requirements for the EPA to consult with agencies that have the most expertise on endangered species,” environmentalists say in a Nov. 16 statement...