CFS et al v. EPA

Reference :

3:21-cv-09640 // 21-9640

Complaint date :

December 14, 2021

Status :

Not judged

Place of jurisdiction :

United States, San Francisco

Plaintiffs types :

Health/Food groups, Environmental NGOs

Plaintiffs names :

Center for Food Safety (CFS), Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA)

Defendants :

EPA, Michael S. Regan

Lawyers for Health and Environmental Justice :

Silvia Shih-Yau Wu, George Kimbrell

Case nature :

Administrative

Specificities :

Civil action for injunctive and declaratory relief

Type(s), Product(s), Active substance(s) :

, Neonicotinoid

Requests :

Declare that EPA has violated the APA by failing to provide a timely response to the 2017 Petition; Declare that EPA continues to be in violation of the APA by failing to respond to the 2017 Petition; Order EPA to respond to the 2017 Petition by a Court-ordered date certain, by no more than 90 days...

Name of the Court :

District Court for the Northern District of California of San Francisco, United States

Jurisdiction level :

Summary :

With no answer to a 2017 legal rulemaking petition calling on EPA to close a regulatory loophole that allows seeds coated with systemic pesticides (coated seeds) to evade the registration and labeling requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), plaintiffs CFS and PANNA file an action for declaratory and equitable relief on Dec. 14, 2021. EPA’s failure to respond to the petition and close the loophole means these pesticides are continuing to cause environmental harm unabated.

Scientific references :

No scientifice reference for this case.