Tuesday, April 4, 2017

EPA Decides Not To Ban A Pesticide, Despite Its Own Evidence Of Risk

A federal court has ordered him to decide by midnight on Friday whether to ban a pesticide called chlorpyrifos.

The Obama administration proposed this ban back in 2015. Pruitt made his reputation opposing EPA regulations, and many farm organizations expect him to renounce the proposed ban. But it won't be easy, because doing so would mean disregarding a substantial pile of scientific evidence that his agency has assembled on the risks of this chemical....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/29/521898976/will-the-epa-reject-a-pesticide-or-its-own-scientific-evidence?ft=nprml&f=1001

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