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Article

3 Jul 2015

Author:
EarthJustice (USA)

USA: Environment agency may ban neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos from agricultural use - farmworkers urge agency to act

"After Years of Ignoring Calls to Ban Dangerous Pesticide, EPA Begins to Act on Chlorpyrifos", 1 July 2015

Some 15 years after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned chlorpyrifos from residential use, the agency announced yesterday that it may ban the neurotoxic pesticide from use in agricultural fields... The announcement came after a recent court...decision directing the agency to act... Environmental health and farmworker advocates...are calling the announcement an important step in the right direction, and potentially more far-reaching, if the agency fully commits to a ban next year... In December 2014, EPA finally acknowledged the extensive...science correlating chlorpyrifos exposure with brain damage to children...

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