Eric Perez and his wife, Mari, live with their five children in the Wenatchee Valley in central Washington state. Their house is just feet from an orchard. A couple of years ago, the kids were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard when they smelled something"plasticky," Perez remembers — like"rotten eggs."
Perez says they got stomachaches, started throwing up and having trouble breathing and got diarrhea and scratchy throats.Washington's Department of Agriculture investigated and found evidence that a pesticide called chlorpyrifos had drifted onto the Perez's property from the neighboring orchard. "There are developmental effects in children and in the fetus during pregnancy," he says."We may see slower learning, not making progress in school as quickly as other students."
A group of environmental and farmworkers organizations that want a total ban sued the EPA. Last August, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the EPA had to ban chlorpyrifos. But the EPA appealed that decision, and now the full 9th Circuit is reconsidering the ruling.Sean Gilbert is a fifth-generation farmer in Yakima, Washington. He grows apples and other tree fruit. He says he sometimes uses chlorpyrifos in his orchards.
... make the agency ban it ...
More Fake News we don’t need more regulations 🤦♀️ defundNPR
tRump’s “EPA” administrators are extremely not qualified for their job description. Compare it to El Chapo heading the DEA. We don’t have an EPA within the tRump administration. It’s only use is for exploiting our environment for financial gain.
But they just believe both sides of the dangerous chemicals science.
We're so behind other countries who have already determined that their citizens' health should come before profit. Let's hope the court gets it.