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UPDATE (3-29-2017): EPA director Scott Pruitt signed an order denying the agency'sown proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, according to a Wednesday afternoon press release. "We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” Pruitt said in a written statement. “By reversing the previous Administration’s steps to ban one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, we are returning to using sound science in decision-making – rather than predetermined results.”
By Friday, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency will have to make a momentous decision: whether to protect kids from a widely used pesticide that's known to harm their brains—or protect the interests of the chemical's maker, Dow AgroSciences.
The pesticide in question, chlorpyrifos, is a nasty piece of work. It's an organophosphate, a class of bug killers that work by "interrupting the electrochemical processes that nerves use to communicate with muscles and other nerves," as the Pesticide Encyclopedia puts it. Chlorpyrifos is also an endocrine disrupter, meaning it can cause "adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects," according to the National Institutes of Health.
UPDATE (3-29-2017): EPA director Scott Pruitt signed an order denying the agency'sown proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, according to a Wednesday afternoon press release. "We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” Pruitt said in a written statement. “By reversing the previous Administration’s steps to ban one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, we are returning to using sound science in decision-making – rather than predetermined results.”
By Friday, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency will have to make a momentous decision: whether to protect kids from a widely used pesticide that's known to harm their brains—or protect the interests of the chemical's maker, Dow AgroSciences.
The pesticide in question, chlorpyrifos, is a nasty piece of work. It's an organophosphate, a class of bug killers that work by "interrupting the electrochemical processes that nerves use to communicate with muscles and other nerves," as the Pesticide Encyclopedia puts it. Chlorpyrifos is also an endocrine disrupter, meaning it can cause "adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects," according to the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/trump-epa-brain-damaging-pesticide
Were his comments before or after VP Pence voted for the War Against Women?
'We're against abortion, but won't pay for contraceptives or family planning'?
YUP! They're on drugs!
Spicey was called Sphincter in college and was highly insulted.
I have taken to referring to him as SPIN SPHINCTER.
I will however admit that Diane Causey's recognition of ground acrimony being available and Harvey Kitzman's Spice Rack define the idiocy.
Just heard Spicy, in a press conference, brag on President Trump for championing women's issues and the empowerment of women during his campaign, and continuing, now, into his administration.
Spicy, I don't know what you're smoking, man, but I want some!
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Fantastic! And just in time: I'm nearly out of ground acrimony.
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