EPA Ends More Chlorpyrifos Uses Even as Court Vacates Rule (1)

The EPA announced further restrictions of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos just a day after a federal court vacated a regulation that had banned the pesticide’s uses on food crops.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it will cancel food-related uses of the pesticide that companies voluntarily asked the agency to end.

That leaves Gharda Chemicals International Inc. as the last pesticide manufacturer to retain a registration, essentially an EPA license to use, chlorpyrifos on food crops. The agency sought last year to cancel those uses, but Gharda is fighting administratively to retain them.

The EPA’s notice said the pesticide can’t be applied ...