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In the land of Idiocracy that would be true, but in places with intelligent folks who love their kids and are concerned for the future this issue needs to be front and center.
The initial petitions to ban all use was in 2007. So the Obama administration did not act in those years. In fact according to the court the delay was egregious. I don't blame the Obama administration because chances are the data is inconclusive. What pesticide doesn't possibly harm us? On the other side is what is the benefit in using it.
I think the evidence is clear President Obama hates healthy young brains and only acted when forced by the court. Just kidding.
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On August 10, 2015, this Court issued a writ of mandamus to put an end to
respondent Environmental Protection Agency’s “egregious” delay in responding to
a 2007 petition to revoke all food tolerances and cancel all registrations of
chlorpyrifos, a neuro-toxic pesticide.
The scientists at the EPA recommended the ban, it was going through the process since 2015. I don't think Obama did the studies but he wasn't about to appoint an EPA director who would deny the science. Chlorpyrifos was already banned for indoor use back in 2000 but not for use in agriculture. Dow met with Scott Pruitt just before he blocked the ban, they are manufacturer and donated $1M to the Trump campaign.
The EPA has been in the pockets of big business since way before Trump.
The initial petitions to ban all use was in 2007. So the Obama administration did not act in those years. In fact according to the court the delay was egregious. I don't blame the Obama administration because chances are the data is inconclusive. What pesticide doesn't possibly harm us? On the other side is what is the benefit in using it.
They noted less child deaths in the years after it was banned from residential use.
They had conclusive data back in 2003 resulting from the 2001 ban.
The EPA has been in the pockets of big business since way before Trump.
What big business in the last 20 years. Trump has appointed oil men to the EPA and gotten rid of independent research scientists and replaced them with industry experts. I don't want industry regulating the EPA.
What big business in the last 20 years. Trump has appointed oil men to the EPA and gotten rid of independent research scientists and replaced them with industry experts. I don't want industry regulating the EPA.
Trump has filled his administrative swamp with many counterintuitive choices.
I don't know of one kid hurt by that pesticide... Anybody know one?
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