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Udall Demands Answers from Pruitt on Decision Not to Ban Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s budget, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt demanding answers about his March 29 decision to reject a petition that sought to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in children and acute poisonings of farm workers. In denying the petition, Pruitt reversed the EPA’s proposed ban on the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops — and rejected the scientific determination of EPA’s professional staff linking chlorpyrifos to brain damage and farmer and bystander poisoning.
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Udall Demands Answers from Pruitt on Decision Not to Ban Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s budget, sent a letter …
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