"Pruitt and his top political appointees relied solely on comments by Sheryl Kunickis, director of the Office of Pest Management Policy at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to arrive at the decision not to ban the pesticide."
Environmental Working Group vice president for communications, Alex Formuzis, added:
"USDA and the agro-chemical industry should not be the groups that get to decide the fate of a highly toxic pesticide that can harm kids' brains and put farmworkers and their families at risk."
Chances are we have all been exposed to chlorpyrifos since it has been used on Brussels sprouts, almonds, walnuts, apples, and oranges.
There is no safe exposure level to it.
In fact, children between ages one and two are the most exposed--140 times the level the EPA deems "safe."
It contaminates drinking water, drifts to schools, homes, and fields in toxic amounts over 300 feet from fields in which it has been applied.
Farmworkers confront extreme exposure risk.
If chlorpyrifos' effects have been known for so long, and the previous administration was all set to ban it, what would motivate the current administration to continue exposing millions of Americans to it?
Like with everything else that fuels the Trump administration, follow the money.
Dow Agrosciences, a division of Dow Chemical, manufactures chlorpyrifos.
Dow Chemical donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.
So much for "draining the swamp."
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