date:Jul 13, 2018
A federal court will determine if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be ordered to ban a pesticide linked to brain damage in children. Seven states and a coalition of environmental and labour groups made final arguments before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this Monday. They are challenging the EPA's refusal to ban chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate related to sarin nerve gas.
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