by Brigit Rollins | Sep 21, 2021 | Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, WOTUS Update
In late August, a court in the District of Arizona issued a decision vacating the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (“NWPR”), the most recent regulation defining the term “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”) under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). Prior to the court’s...
by Brigit Rollins | Sep 7, 2021 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
On August 1, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published documents in the Federal Register announcing the Agency’s Interim Registration Review Decision for the pesticide paraquat dichloride (paraquat). Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
by Brigit Rollins | Sep 2, 2021 | Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, WOTUS Update
UPDATE: Since the court’s ruling was issued, EPA has announced on its website that both it and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will cease implementation of the NWPR and are instead interpreting WOTUS consistent with pre-2015 regulatory regime until further...
by Brigit Rollins | Aug 24, 2021 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
On August 19, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced its intention to publish a final rule in the Federal Register revoking all tolerances for residues of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. This decision comes 14 years after environmental groups filed a...
by Brigit Rollins | Aug 12, 2021 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
A California State Court of Appeal issued a ruling on August 9, 2021, upholding a jury verdict awarding millions of dollars in damages to a married couple who claimed that exposure to Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, caused them both to develop non-Hodgkin’s...
