Ruling Holds Appellate Courts Must Review EPA Pesticide Decision Suits

摘要

A key court has held that appellate courts, not trial courts, have jurisdiction to review challenges to EPA pesticide decisions in cases where the agency has declined to hold adequate hearings on the decisions, in a ruling that could stymie a series of challenges that environmentalists have brought against Bush-era decisions.rnWhile the ruling is a loss for environmentalists, they have already taken some steps to head off the outcome, such as calling on the Obama administration to reverse the prior administration's decisions.