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LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMER. CITIZENS v. WHEELER

No. 17-71636.

899 F.3d 814 (2018)

LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS; Pesticide Action Network North America; Natural Resources Defense Council; California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation; Farmworkers Association of Florida; Farmworker Justice GreenLatinos; Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; Learning Disabilities Association of America; National Hispanic Medical Association; Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste; United Farm Workers, Petitioners, State of New York; State of Maryland; State of Vermont; State of Washington; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; District of Columbia; State of California; State of Hawaii, Intervenors, v. Andrew WHEELER, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 9, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patti A. Goldman (argued), Marisa C. Ordonia , and Kristen L. Boyles , Earthjustice, Seattle, Washington, for Petitioners.

Frederick A. Brodie (argued), Assistant Solicitor General; Andrea Oser , Deputy Solicitor General; Barbara D. Underwood , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Albany, New York; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General; Steven M. Sullivan , Solicitor General; Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas J. Donovan Jr. , Attorney General; Nicholas F. Persampieri , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Montpelier, Vermont; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; William R. Sherman , Counsel for Environmental Protection; Attorney General's Office, Seattle, Washington; Maura Healey , Attorney General; I. Andrew Goldberg , Assistant Attorney General; Environmental Protection Division, Office of the Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General; Brian R. Caldwell , Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General; Susan S. Fiering , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Reed Sato , Deputy Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; Russell A. Suzuki , Acting Attorney General; Wade H. Hargrove III , Deputy Attorney General; Health and Human Services Division, Department of the Attorney General, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Intervenors.

Phillip R. Dupré (argued) and Erica M. Zilioli , Attorneys, Environmental Defense Section; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mark Dyner , Office of the General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.

Donald C. McLean , Stanley H. Abramson , Kathleen R. Heilman , and Sylvia G. Costelloe , Arent Fox LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Dow Agrosciences LLC.

Susan J. Kraham and Edward Lloyd , Columbia Environmental Clinic, Morningside Heights Legal Services, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae Congressman Henry Waxman.

Shaun A. Goho , Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae Health Professional Organizations.

Dissent by Judge Fernandez

OPINION

Over nearly two decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has documented the likely adverse effects of foods containing the residue of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on the physical and mental development of American infants and children, often lasting into adulthood. In such circumstances, federal...

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