Judge orders wildlife service to do more to protect imperiled species from pesticides

The new head of the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) wants to reverse a series of regulations on environmental and climate protection. Environmentalists protest that there is a legal dispute [more]]>

Judge orders wildlife service to do more to protect imperiled species from pesticides

A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) must finish assessing the impact of five pesticides on endangered and threatened species, and that the agency had violated federal law with its “unreasonable” delay in completing the required analyses. The five chemicals include the weed killers atrazine and simazine, and the insecticides ​chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and carbaryl. The ruling ought to force the Trump adm…

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency stated that this was "the biggest day of deregulation our nation has ever seen"