Court Ruling Makes It 3 Straight Losses For Shitstain In Ham-Fisted Attack On Environmental Law

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Upon entering office, top officials in the Trump administration, including former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, immediately began to order the rollback of key public health and environmental safety regulations. But as these officials were carrying out President Donald Trump’s anti-regulatory agenda, many legal experts predicted the rollbacks would get tied up in court and potentially struck down.

In the latest defeat for the administration, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned the EPA’s delay of an Obama-era chemical safety regulation, emphasizing that the law “limits EPA’s authority to delay final rules for the purposes of reconsideration.”

A day earlier, a federal district court in South Carolina overturned the Trump administration’s delay of the Obama administration’s Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule for failing to offer the public a proper opportunity to comment. With the court decision, the 2015 rule — also known as the Clean Water Rule — is now officially in force in 26 states. District court injunctions are preventing the law from taking hold in the other 24 states.

In the first of three recent court defeats for the administration, a federal appeals court on August 9 ordered the EPA to ban all remaining uses of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used on certain food crops and non-agricultural sites that has been linked to neurological damage and other adverse health impacts. “Everything they’re doing is not founded in the law and it’s irrational. So, it’s no surprise the courts are slapping them back,” Pat Gallagher, legal director for the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program, said Friday in an interview with ThinkProgress.

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