Victory: Communities remain at risk from widespread agricultural use, protections still needed
Farmworkers and their families, who are predominantly low-income and majority Latino, bear the brunt of poisonings from pesticides and pesticide drift. Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 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 as well. The announcement…
