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EPA Administrator Pruitt Denies Petition to Ban Widely Used Pesticide
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt signed an order denying a petition that sought to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide crucial to U.S. agriculture.
“We need to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos, while still protecting human health and the environment,” said EPA Administrator Pruitt. “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.”
“This is a welcome decision grounded in evidence and science,” said Sheryl Kunickis, director of the Office of Pest Management Policy at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “It means that this important pest management tool will remain available to growers, helping to ensure an abundant and affordable food supply for this nation and the world. This frees American farmers from significant trade disruptions that could have been caused by an unnecessary, unilateral revocation of chlorpyrifos tolerances in the United States. It is also great news for consumers, who will continue to have access to a full range of both domestic and imported fruits and vegetables. We thank our colleagues at EPA for their hard work.”
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ep...t-denies-petition-ban-widely-used-pesticide-0
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Now they need to bring back DDT to kill those ******* disease laden mosquitoes!
Bureaucrat Responsible For EPA’s DDT
Environmentalists like activist-author Rachel Carson claimed DDT caused cancer and killed wildlife – their claims were later found without merit, but not before the pesticide was outright banned inside the U.S. and later around the world.
The EPA’s ban eventually led to the suffering of tens of millions of people from mosquito-borne disease. Alternatives haven’t worked, and WHO director-general Margaret Chan recently blasted the ban in a speech to the World Health Assembly.
“Above all, the spread of Zika, the resurgence of dengue, and the emerging threat from chikungunya are the price being paid for a massive policy failure that dropped the ball on mosquito control in the 1970s,” she told a WHO panel in 2016. Her comments were addressing the history of curbing the use of pesticides like DDT.
Policy experts are lobbying to bring back DDT, which they say could eventually eradicate Zika.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/07/b...s-ddt-ban-says-trump-must-beef-up-the-agency/
