California will outlaw the use of a pesticide linked to developmental problems in humans after President Donald Trump's administration scrapped plans for a nationwide ban, state health officials said Wednesday.
The decision to ban chlorpyrifos in the agriculturally rich state follows "mounting evidence" of serious health effects for exposed children and other vulnerable people, two California health agencies said in a statement.
Toxic effects including "impaired brain and neurological development" occur at lower levels of the pesticide than previously thought, said the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).
Farmers using the product will have 15 days to challenge the ban notice in court before it comes into effect, the DPR told AFP.
Virtually all residential uses of the pesticide has been banned since the end of 2001 throughout the United States.
[...] The European Commission announced this month it will recommend chlorpyrifos does not have its license renewed when it expires in January, following a negative assessment by the EU's food safety watchdog. Eight European countries have already individually banned products containing the pesticide.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @06:28AM (8 children)
Is a state having more strict laws than the federal level defiant now?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @07:17AM (1 child)
I was thinking the same. They will do anything to inject Trump into the news. I honestly thought about making a bot to scrape "news" sites and stringinstring for Trump and find out how many articles and occurrences in them and create a rating for sites based on their use of the Trump bump.
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Friday August 16 2019, @05:21PM
:-) Well hell, doing your part I see, but you only mentioned the name three times... Let's pick up the pace, eh?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @08:17AM (1 child)
Hehehehe you see it is a bit of a pickle for authoritarian Commiefornians. They believe that State's Rights are an affront to their desire to live in Socialist Utopia (example banning mentally-ill-sexual-deviants from using same restrooms as pre-pubecent girls), but if it's not Socialists running the show, well then...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 16 2019, @11:46AM
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 16 2019, @06:01PM
That's questionable. Sometimes the courts have ruled that federal rules and standards preempt state rules and standards. But they don't always rule that way. IANAL, so I don't know the detailed "logic" behind their arguments.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 16 2019, @06:14PM (2 children)
When the big quake hits, and California separates from the rest of the continent, things will change.
As that continent sinks into the ocean, taking Canada and Mexico and South America too, only California will be Left standing. Then it won't need to worry about defying the federal government, when it is desirable.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:56AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:01PM
Never heard of New New Dallas?