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The Ninth Circuit expressed impatience with the EPA’s continued delay in deciding whether to ban chlorpyrifos, which scientists say can harm young children’s development. A farmworker gathers sweet potatoes in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Sweet potatoes are one of many crops that chlorpyrifos is used on. (Lance Cheun/USDA via Courthouse News) (CN) — Aiming to conclude a 14-year regulatory saga, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency must find that residual amounts of a pesticide are completely safe for babies in utero, else completely ban it. In a 2-1 maj...

Court tells EPA to limit or ban pesticide that Trump administration kept on market FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Protesters at the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Sacramento after a public hearing on increasing restrictions on the use of the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos in 2018. The government must limit or ban the widely used pesticide, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.Max Whittaker / New York TimesShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Chlorpyrifos was first developed as a nerve gas in World War II. It has been in commercial use since 1965 to kill insects on more than 8...

Plans for 3-D ghost guns may be posted online, federal court rules FacebookTwitterEmail This polymer handgun — known as a ghost gun — was seized by Berkeley police. It has a 30-round magazine.Courtesy Berkeley Police Department Designers of self-assembled 3-D “ghost guns” may post their plans online without seeking permission from the State Department, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, reinstating a Trump administration order that had been blocked by a federal judge. The firearms, which do not require a gun-maker’s license, had been included in the State Department’s Munitio...

While it may seem obvious that the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home, federal courts have been debating that question for years. This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could finally settle the issue, which the petitioners call "perhaps the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question." The case involves a New York law that requires applicants for handgun carry licenses to show "proper cause," which according to state courts means more than a "generalized desire" to "protect one's person and property." Applicants must "demonstra...

The appeals court decision loosens regulations on sharing untraceable 3D-printed gun files, but the Biden administration is expected to propose new restrictions on so-called ghost guns by May 8. Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday lifted a court order against two Trump-era rules that make it easier to share untraceable 3D-printed gun blueprints, just as the Biden administration seeks to tighten restrictions on so-called ghost gu...