The good news just keeps coming. Chlorpyrifos, used as a pesticide since 1965, has been proven to cause neurological damage to children. The phase-out started under the Obama Administration, but the Trump administration ignored the science and kept the pesticide on the market.
Judge Jed Rake-off of the 9th Circuit, which ruled on the ban, said the E.P.A. under Trump “sought to evade, through one delaying tactic after another, its plain statutory duties.”
If I were editing the New York Times, this would have been front page news, but you can find it on page A13 in today’s paper. I am always amazed at what pesticide and herbicide companies will do for money. But I guess that is what capitalism is about.
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