Pruitt Greenlights Brain-Damaging Pesticide
"EPA chief Pruitt's move rejecting his scientists' advice to ban a pesticide?
That's exactly what the pesticide maker, DowChem, asked for."
All exposure to chlorpyrifos through food exceeds safe levels of the chemical. The most exposed population is children between one and two years of age. On average, this vulnerable group is exposed to 140 times the level of chlorpyrifos the EPA deems safe.
Chlorpyrifos contaminates drinking water.
Chlorpyrifos drifts to schools, homes, and fields in toxic amounts at more than 300 feet from the fields.
Workers face unacceptable risks from exposures when they mix and apply chlorpyrifos and when they enter fields to tend to crops.
"We have a law that requires the EPA to ban pesticides that it cannot determine are safe, and the EPA has repeatedly said this pesticide is not safe,"
Pruitt is simply breaking the law
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