The Trump administration refused to take the chemical off the market, ignoring the recommendation of Environmental Protection Agency scientists.
A farmer applies pesticides to a field in Hastings, Iowa, in 2015. The Biden administration said Wednesday it will ban the use of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide.
The Obama administration began the process of barring agricultural use of the chemical in November 2015, only to have the Trump administration defy the recommendation of EPA scientists andWednesday’s decision is a response to a federal appeals court’s April ruling that the EPA either prove chlorpyrifos’s safety or halt its use altogether. The ban is slated to take effect in six months.
“Finally, we will protect future generations by stopping this acutely toxic pesticide from being sprayed into the air we breathe, the water we drink and the fruits and vegetables we eat,” Tracy Gregoire, a project coordinator at the Learning Disabilities Association of America, one of several groups that sued Trump’s EPA over its refusal to ban the pesticide, said in a statement Wednesday.
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