法院禁制有害農藥特朗普的環境保護局試圖保持在市上

法院禁制有害農藥特朗普的環境保護局試圖保持在市上
Court Bans Harmful Pesticide that Trump EPA Tried to Keep on the Market

法院的判決是一場罕見而艱苦的勝仗，在美國環保局和大化學公司之間經常犧牲公眾健康作為代價而閉門交易中取得的。
The court’s decision was a rare and hard-fought victory over the deals often made between the EPA and major chemical corporations behind closed doors at the expense of public health.

Aug 10, 2018

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the harmful pesticide chlorpyrifos within 60 days. The court’s ruling is being seen as a major victory for environmentalists and public health activists, who have been fighting to ban the agro-chemical for well over a decade, and comes a few months after Hawaii passed the country’s first state-wide ban of the substance.

The chemical, which numerous studies have shown causes significant damage to the nervous systems of children and infants, was banned for household use by the EPA in 2000, but the regulatory agency has largely resisted banning its use in agriculture. Yet efforts to ban the chemical had seemed to pay off when the EPA under the Obama administration proposed banning the substance for agricultural use in 2015. However, the ban’s implementation was delayed and then blocked by President Trump’s former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt last March.

The court justified its decision by citing the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which requires the EPA to ban pesticides used on food if exposure to the chemical is found to cause any harm to human health. Given that the EPA’s own research — including studies performed as recently as 2016 — linked chlorpyrifos to developmental and neurological disorders, especially in children and infants, the court found that the EPA’s failure to enforce a total ban of the chemical was in violation of the law.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/court-bans-harmful-pesticide-that-trump-epa-tried-to-keep-on-the-market/247489/