Want to Avoid Feeding Your Kids Pesticides That Can Harm Their Brains? Read This

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Apr 5, 2017, 10:12 am110 pts
By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt stuck to his long-standing practice of ignoring science, disregarding data that shows the pesticide chlorpyrifos could harm kids' brains. Instead of banning it as scheduled, Pruitt caved to…

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