Environmental

Groups Challenge EPA Failure to Protect Children from Pesticides

After five years, EPA takes no additional action to protect children from pesticide spray drift

A girl walks through a farmfield.

EPA has failed to protect children from pesticides when they drift from treated fields into nearby yards, homes, schools, parks and daycare centers. Rob Marmion / Shutterstock
San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2014.  Environmental, health, and farmworker advocacy groups filed an Administrative Objection and a court appealthis week, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) refusal to quickly correct errors in…

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