EPA said in court filings this week it will not meet the court-ordered Oct. 1 deadline for the agency to review its cancer assessment and to conduct an Endangered Species Act (ESA) review of the herbicide glyphosate. EPA asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to give the agency more time, indicating it would be unable to issue a new interim decision or final registration decision for glyphosate until 2026 because of the complexity of the issues involved and the lengthy timeframe needed to complete its ESA review and consultation with the federal wildlife agencies.
The court is not expected to rule until the petitioners in the case file their response to EPA’s request. EPA said at most by Oct. 1 it could only provide a partial analysis of some of the issues in the case and that such an analysis would have “no regulatory or real-world effect.”
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