Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)

A district court vacated three pesticide registrations issued by EPA in 2020 for "over-the-top" application of dicamba products manufactured by agrochemical companies. Environmental…

The Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's conclusion that FIFRA expressly preempted a state failure-to-warn claim brought by a Georgia landowner against the manufacturer of the…

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part environmental and public interest groups' petition to review EPA's amended pesticide registrations of streptomycin sulfate for use in…

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…

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In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit granted in part environmental groups' petition to review EPA's registration of a new fungicide called inpyrfluxam.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

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part a petition to review EPA's determination that glyphosate did not pose "any unreasonable risk to man or the environment."…

The Ninth Circuit vacated EPA's denial of a petition to cancel the registration of the pesticide tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP). An environmental group petitioned the Agency to cancel the…

The Ninth Circuit granted in part one petition to review and denied another petition to review EPA's 2014, 2015, and 2017 decisions to register a pesticide that combines two chemicals—2,4-…

The Ninth Circuit vacated EPA's 2018 decision to conditionally register three dicamba-based herbicides designed to be sprayed on genetically engineered soybeans and cotton. Nonprofit groups…