A court has ruled that the EPA must ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos—or prove its safety. A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos ...
“If political appointees weren’t stopping the government’s own scientists from doing their jobs, this brain-damaging, wildlife-killing horror of a pesticide would already be banned.” (By Beyond Pesticides) A set of documents obtained by the Center ...
A new study published by toxicologists called for the ban of organophosphates (OP), a class of chemicals found in pesticides. The study found organophosphates are linked to brain damage in children and claimed that exposure ...