Court orders E.P.A to ban pesticide tied to children’s severe health problems
Yesterday, a federal appeals court ordered the EPA to bar — within 60 days — a widely used pesticide that’s been associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children. “The order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit came after a decade-long effort by environmental and public health groups to get the pesticide, chlorpyrifos, removed from the market. The product is used in more than 50 fruit, nut, cereal and vegetable crops including apples, almonds, oranges and broccoli, with more than 640,000 acres treated in California alone in 2016, the most recent year data is available. In...
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