Court Rejects Environmentalists' Push To Block EPA Chlorpyrifos Reversal

摘要

A federal appeals court has rejected an environmentalist lawsuit seeking to block EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's reversal of an Obama administration plan to ban the widely-used pesticide chlorpyrifos, ordering petitioners to administratively appeal the agency's action, though environmentalists have another pending suit seeking to block the action on the merits. In a July 18 order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) v. EPA to reject environmentalists' mandamus request seeking to block Pruitt's March 29 order denying their petition to ban use of the substance on food and reversing an Obama EPA proposed rule that would have granted that request. Relevant documents are available on lnsideEPA.com.