Trump and Dursban

Trump Administration Refuses to Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide July 22, 2019 Trump Administration Refuses to Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide EPA Science Says Chlorpyrifos Exposure Threatens Public Health Cara Schulte Senior Associate, Environment and Human Rights @CaraSchulte_ @CaraSchulte_ Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided not to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide that, according to studies funded by the agency, has been linked to developmental delay in children.... The decision follows several attempts by the administration to quash a 2015 EPA proposal to ban chlorpyrifos. These efforts began just weeks after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, to which the manufacturer of the pesticide, Corteva (formerly DowDupont), contributed $1 million.... ... The EPA also failed to comply with the relevant standards under the Food Quality Protection Act, which requires the agency to demonstrate that there is a reasonable certainty the pesticide will not cause harm. The EPA inverted the evidentiary standard when it noted that groups challenging chlorpyrifos’s use did not have “sufficiently valid, complete or reliable” data demonstrating the product is not safe. ...Hawaii and California have passed laws to ban the pesticide and New York, Oregon, Maryland, and Connecticut have similar initiatives underway. But despite some state laws, chlorpyrifos continues to be used on food crops such as corn, fruit, nuts, and soybeans in other areas of the US. As a result, agricultural workers, their families and those who live near crop fields or waste disposal sites all remain at increased risk of exposure and serious illnesses.https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/22/trump-administration-refuses-ban-neurotoxic-pesticide (Now, in researching Uvalde, Texas mass murder one can readily see that the area is surrounded by massive cotton and corn fields^, the worst in terms of genetic modification and heavy pesticides -usage like Dursban/chlorpyrifos which is one of the famous Dirty Dozen, or most dangerous of all . thus, as Texas is #1 in cotton, it is very likely #1 in Dursban usage, thus #1 in poisoning the food, water, air, especially the oils dervied from various crops which bind strongly to such poisons. -r.) ^one can use Google maps to check an area. Trump was schooled at Wall Street to learn Biden admin. has helped safeguard against some of the poisons. lobbyist tricks.