Study Marks First Time EPA Has Properly Examined Nationwide Pesticide Impacts on Rare Animals, Plants
PORTLAND, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2016. The Environmental Protection Agency’s first rigorous nationwide analysis of the effects of pesticides on endangered species finds that 97 percent of more than 1,700 animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act are likely to be hurt by malathion and chlorpyrifos. Another 79 percent are likely to be hurt by diazinon. The…
