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Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

posted by mrpg on Monday August 13 2018, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the too-late dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The New York Times reports:

A federal appeals court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to bar within 60 days a widely used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children, dealing the industry a major blow after it had successfully lobbied the Trump administration to reject a ban.

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @04:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @04:12PM (#721023)

    One can't help reading sarcastically into those variations over the usage of the sweet smelling hydrogen cyanide in WW1 and how huge chunks of American troops were/are 2nd gen immigrants.