chlorpyrifos

Salmon and Orca Survival Threatened by Chlorpyrifos Pesticide: Government Report

Salmon and Orca Survival Threatened by Chlorpyrifos Pesticide: Government Report

A group of three widely used agricultural pesticides jeopardizes the survival of endangered salmon, according to a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) biological opinion unveiled this week. Chlorpyrifos, malathion and diazinon—all organophosphate pesticides—harm salmon and their habitat to the point that their survival and recovery are at risk, according to the report. Southern Resident Killer […]

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    Pruitt’s EPA Cedes Pesticide Oversight to Agriculture Department

    Pruitt’s EPA Cedes Pesticide Oversight to Agriculture Department

    Internal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) documents show that Administrator Scott Pruitt has effectively relinquished the EPA’s oversight of pesticide safety to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), said Scott Faber, the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) senior vice president of government affairs. More than 700 pages of emails and other records show that Pruitt and […]

    Senators Unveil Bill to Ban Chlorpyrifos

    Senators Unveil Bill to Ban Chlorpyrifos

    Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kamala Harris (D-CA) , Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) unveiled Tuesday a first-of-its-kind bill that would ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used agricultural pesticide that has been linked to reduced IQ and attention deficit disorder in children. […]

    States Sue EPA for Failing to Ban Toxic Pesticide

    States Sue EPA for Failing to Ban Toxic Pesticide

    By Farron Cousins In late March, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt decided that his agency would not place an outright ban on a pesticide manufactured by Dow Chemical called chlorpyrifos. The decision came after a federal court ordered the EPA to make a final decision on whether or not to ban the […]

    EPA Chief Met With Dow Chemical CEO Before Deciding Not to Ban Toxic Pesticide

    EPA Chief Met With Dow Chemical CEO Before Deciding Not to Ban Toxic Pesticide

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt met with Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris before deciding to reverse an earlier EPA decision to ban the company’s toxic and widely used pesticide, chlorpyrifos. According to records obtained by the Associated Press, the EPA boss met with Liveris for about 30 minutes at a Houston hotel […]

    ​7 States Challenge Trump EPA Over Toxic Pesticide

    ​7 States Challenge Trump EPA Over Toxic Pesticide

    By Miriam Rotkin-Ellman The fight to ban chlorpyrifos has been heating up this week. Natural Resources Defense Council, together with a coalition of advocacy groups—and now seven state attorneys general—are ramping up the pressure on Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children. It is widely used […]

    12 Farmworkers Poisoned by Toxic Pesticide Only One Month After EPA Denies Ban

    12 Farmworkers Poisoned by Toxic Pesticide Only One Month After EPA Denies Ban

    More than 50 agricultural workers southwest of Bakersfield, California in Kern County were inadvertently exposed to pesticide drift from a nearby field earlier this month. According to local reports, 12 farmworkers reported symptoms of vomiting, nausea and one person fainted due to exposure to Vulcan, an organophosphate-based chemical. Notably, the active ingredient in the insecticide […]

    Why Won’t the EPA Ban This Extremely Toxic Pesticide?

    Why Won’t the EPA Ban This Extremely Toxic Pesticide?

    By Nicole Greenfield The pesticide industry and Dow Chemical have a new reason to cheer. The rest of us appear to be stuck with chlorpyrifos on our food, at least for the time being. On March 29, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the EPA would reverse a proposed ban on this […]

    Dow Chemical Pushes Trump Administration to Scrap Pesticide Study

    Dow Chemical Pushes Trump Administration to Scrap Pesticide Study

    Dow Chemical, whose CEO Andrew Liveris is a close adviser to President Donald Trump, is pressuring the administration to throw out a government risk study on several popular pesticides, the Associated Press reported. The 10,000-page study found that the three pesticides under review—chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion—pose a risk to roughly 1,800 animals and plants protected […]