District Judge Scraps EPA Pesticide Worker Rule Delay For Violating APA

A federal district court judge has vacated the Trump administration's delay of an Obama-era rule bolstering training requirements for applicators of certain pesticides, holding that EPA violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in delaying the rule without seeking public input and that farmworker groups face harms from the delay. The ruling is the latest in a string of court losses for the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda, though a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...