TRUMP EPA - Lets Risk Children So the Pesticide Industry Can Make a Profit

NOTE:  On March 29, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos.  However, on August 9, 2018, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to ban the sale of chlorpyrifos in the United States within 60 days.

"The EPA isn’t taking its own advice on a pesticide that causes brain damage in children" PBS NewsHour 8/29/2018

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SUMMARY:  After decades of research and debate, the EPA was on the cusp of banning all use of chlorpyrifos, a poison that attacks the nervous system.  But in 2017, then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt delayed a decision by five years.  Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports that fight is part of a larger battle over the use of scientific studies and industry pressure.