OVERNIGHT ENERGY: EPA proposes reapproving uses of pesticide linked to brain damage in children
Story Date: 12/7/2020

  Source: THE HILL, 12/4/20
 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to continue to allow uses of a pesticide that’s been linked to brain damage in children. 

In a proposed interim decision dated Thursday, the EPA continued to allow uses of the chemical chlorpyrifos, which agricultural workers can be exposed to through their jobs and the general public can be exposed to through food. 

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