California To Limit Chlorpyrifos’ Food Production Use, Environmentalists Sue EPA

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2014.  California state pesticide regulators are looking to curtail the use of chlorpyrifos, one of the most widely used insecticides on the market, due to concerns that it poses a threat to human health and the environment. At the same time, environmental groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of the agency’s continued refusal to fully address a 2007 petitionby the groups calling for a ban on…