Center for Food Safety v. Environmental Protection Agency

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY, et al., Case No. 23-cv-02714-SI

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' v. MOTION TO COMPLETE THE

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 51 9 Defendants. 10 Before the Court is plaintiffs’ motion to complete or in the alternative to supplement the administrative record. Dkt. No. 51. Defendants oppose. Dkt. No. 54. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 7-1(b), the Court determines that the motion is suitable for resolution without oral argument, and VACATES the December 21, 2023 hearing. For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS plaintiffs’ motion to complete the administrative record. 16 BACKGROUND This case challenges the denial by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) of plaintiffs’ April 26, 2017 Citizen Petition (“Petition”), “which urged EPA to close the ‘regulatory loophole’ allowing seeds coated with systemic pesticides [] to…