Source: Jackie Pucci, CROP LIFE AMERICA, 1/13/20


Despite the Trump Administration’s relaxing of regulatory positions on pesticides — notably the EPA decision over the summer to keep chlorpyrifos — the longer-term trend embraced by many U.S. state lawmakers to phase out certain chemicals, one by one, abides. Hawaii became the first state to institute a blanket ban on the manufacturing, sale, and use of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos by 2023, although restrictions began last January.

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