Toxic Substances

The Ninth Circuit, 2-1, affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment for agricultural producers and businesses and a permanent injunction enjoining the California attorney general (…

The Eighth Circuit granted farming groups' petitions to review EPA's 2021 order banning agricultural use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos. The groups argued EPA's "rushed"…

The Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the operator of a chemical storage facility in a lawsuit concerning the operator's 2019 oil spill into the Houston Ship Channel. Shipping…

In an en banc decision, the Eleventh Circuit vacated a panel opinion in a lawsuit concerning a Georgia resident's cancer following decades of using a weedkiller containing glyphosate. The…

A district court granted a plastics company's request to dismiss a lawsuit concerning its production of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Environmental groups argued the company…

A district court granted EPA's motion to dismiss nonprofit groups' challenge to the Agency's response to their TSCA petition requesting comprehensive health and environmental…

A district court denied the state of Illinois' motion to remand to state court a lawsuit concerning three companies' manufacturing and subsequent disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (…

The D.C. Circuit, 2-1, granted a joint motion to hold in abeyance four petitions to invalidate pesticide registration orders issued by EPA. Conservation groups initially petitioned the court for…

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part petitions to review EPA's 2019 amended registration of the pesticide sulfoxaflor. Environmental groups alleged that the registration,…

In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit granted in part environmental groups' petition to review EPA's registration of a new fungicide called inpyrfluxam. The groups argued EPA…