ELR Citation: ELR 20995
No(s). 91-1085 (10th Cir. Mar 6, 1992)

The court rules that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) impliedly preempts state tort actions based on labeling and alleged failure to warn of environmental harm. An employee at a maniufacturing facility that had used a pentacholorophenol product from 1960 to 1972 was di...