Two environmental groups are not entitled to see discovery produced in a lawsuit in which several Midwestern municipalities sued Syngenta Crop Protection LLC over its herbicide atrazine, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled.

Even though the lawsuit settled, Environmental Law & Policy Center and Prairie Rivers Network intervened in an effort to win public access to exhibits filed with the plaintiffs’ response to Syngenta’s motion to dismiss the suit.