9th Circuit Orders EPA To Answer Objections To Chlorpyrifos Ban Reversal

A federal appellate court is ordering EPA to quickly respond to environmentalists’ objections to former Administrator Scott Pruitt’s reversal of an Obama-era proposed ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, an answer that would clear the way for critics of the decision to challenge the agency in courts on the merits of the reversal. In an April 19 order , in the case, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) et al. v. Wheeler , the full U.S. Court of Appeals for...