Dow Agrosciences is urging a federal court to affirm EPA’s approval of its insecticide sulfoxaflor, arguing the agency adequately assessed the potential risks of the pesticide to bees and other pollinators.

The record “provides no basis for overturning the agency’s decision,” the company writes in a legal brief filed March 7 with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Molecular formula for Sulfoxaflor C10-H10-F3-N3-O-S:

sulfoxaflor