Continued widespread agricultural use of chlorpyrifos harms children’s health
A crop duster sprays pesticides over a farmfield. Denton Rumsey / Shutterstock
San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a strong message from labor, community, and environmental health groups as well as more than 160,000 people, calling for a ban on the widely-used neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos that interferes with brain development in fetuses, infants and children.
EPA called for public comments…
