Government,
Environmental & Energy,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Apr. 30, 2021
9th Circuit tells EPA to find a way to ban chlorpyrifos
The ruling, by a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, will almost certainly doom the use of the pesticide, chlorpyrifos, because the EPA will have a short time to make a decision once the ruling is final.




Blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for delaying tactics concerning a pesticide that studies have found is a danger to infants and children, a federal appellate panel ordered the government to find it safe or ban it.
The ruling, by a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, will almost certainly doom the use of the pesticide, chlorpyrifos, because the EPA will have a short time to make a decision once the rulin...
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