EPA Seeks to End Challenge to Its Pesticide Approval Process

The US Environmental Protection Agency asked a federal judge to end litigation with the Center for Food Safety, after the agency denied the group’s petition to review pesticide regulations.

“It’s an irresponsible and unlawful decision that leaves farming communities and endangered species unprotected from exposure to different pesticide formulations and mixtures,” Sylvia Wu, Center for Food Safety attorney, said in a statement.

The center and other nonprofits groups sued the EPA in October 2022, alleging that it never responded to their 2017 petition that claimed the agency failed to assess the full environmental and health impacts of pesticides in ...