The Trump administration is appealing a federal court order for the Environmental Protection Agency to ban a pesticide many farmers say would seriously hurt the agricultural industry.

 

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit violated Supreme Court precedent and the law when it ruled that the EPA improperly rejected a petition in 2017 to prohibit use of chlorpyrifos, the Justice Department said in a Monday filing. Activists believe the pesticide causes neurological disorders.

 

“The important thing here is that courts are not supposed to operate this way,” EPA spokesman Michael Abboud said in a statement. “This opinion nullifies the FIFRA process, violating a congressionally mandated statute. EPA takes science and health issues very seriously, but we must work within the legal process established by Congress.”

 

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