Court Grants Summary Judgment To EPA In Lawsuit Against Its COVID-19 Non-Enforcement Policy
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The Southern District of New York in a judgment filed on Thursday granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) motion for summary judgment, denying the plaintiffs requested relief for allegations that suspended reporting requirements and non-enforcement policies during the COVID-19 pandemic caused environmental harm and breached the Endangered Species Act. The court ruled they did not have standing.
The plaintiffs, conservation advocacy groups including Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance Inc., and Center for Biological Diversity, argued in their complaint filed in August 2020 that the EPA was creating additional risks for species which are already in danger by suspending monitoring and reporting requirements, and endangering habitats.
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Apr 30, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to quickly determine whether a pesticide linked to brain damage in children should be banned, saying the agency had delayed acting on the widely used bug-killer chlorpyrifos for nearly 14 years.
In a 2-1 decision, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to act on a possible ban within 60 days.
“The EPA has spent more than a decade assembling a record of chlorpyrifos’s ill effects,? U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote. “Yet, rather than ban the pesticide or reduce the tolerances to levels that the EPA can find are reasonably certain to cause no harm, the EPA has sought to evade, through one delaying tactic after another, its plain statutory duties.?
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WASHINGTON (AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to quickly determine whether a pesticide linked to brain damage in children should be banned, saying the agency had delayed acting on the widely used bug-killer chlorpyrifos for nearly 14 years. In a 2-1 decision, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to act on a possible ban within 60 days. The EPA has spent more than a decade assembling a record of chlorpyrifos s ill effects, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote. Yet, rather than ban the pesticide or reduce the tolerances to levels that the EPA can find are reasonably certain to cause no harm, the EPA has sought to evade, through one delaying tactic after another, its plain statutory duties.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court on April 29 ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to quickly determine whether a pesticide linked to brain damage in children should be banned, saying the agency had delayed acting on the widely used bug-killer chlorpyrifos for nearly 14 years.
In a 2-1 decision, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to act on a possible ban within 60 days. The EPA has spent more than a decade assembling a record of chlorpyrifos s ill effects, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote. Yet, rather than ban the pesticide or reduce the tolerances to levels that the EPA can find are reasonably certain to cause no harm, the EPA has sought to evade, through one delaying tactic after another, its plain statutory duties.