Pruitt's EPA Cedes Pesticide Oversight to Agriculture Department

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By Environmental Working GroupAug 24, 2017, 11:16 am174 pts
Internal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) documents show that Administrator Scott Pruitt has effectively relinquished the EPA's oversight of pesticide safety to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), said Scott Faber, the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) senior vice president of government…

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