In First-Time Ruling, Court Backs Pesticide Risk Study To Protect Salmon

摘要

A federal judge has backed the administration's assessment on the risks posed by three pesticides on several species of endangered salmon, the first time a court has weighed in on the merits of such an assessment since a precedent-setting ruling earlier this year held that such biological opinions (BiOps), which EPA uses to regulate pesticides, are judicially reviewable.