EPA Scraps Scheduled Ban of Widely Used Pesticide Known to Harm Kids’ Brains

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Apr 2, 2017, 12:12 pm136 pts
In one of his first major decisions as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over scientists Wednesday in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency's proposal to ban chlorpyrifos—an insecticide that at small doses can harm children's brains…

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