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Natural Resouces Defense Council v. US Environmental Protection Agency, 08-3771

In a petition for review of an EPA order overruling petitioner's objections to the Agency's risk assessments for the pesticide dichlorvos and denying the petitioner's requests for a public evidentiary hearing, petition is granted in part and denied in part where the EPA conducted subject risk assessments without using a tenfold children's safety factor that Congress provided should presumptively apply, and it failed to explain why it did not apply this margin of safety.

Appellate Information

  • Decided 09/16/2011
  • Published 09/16/2011

Judges

  • POOLER

Court

  • United States Second Circuit

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