Court orders ban of top-selling pesticide, says EPA violated law, ignored scientific studies

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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove chlorpyrifos from sale in the United States within 60 days.

A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups sued last year after then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era effort to ban chlorpyrifos, which is widely sprayed on citrus fruit, apples and other crops. The attorneys general for several states joined the case against EPA, including California, New York and Massachusetts.

In a split decision, the court said Thursday that Pruitt, a Republican forced to resign earlier this summer amid ethics scandals, violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful.

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1. Good. Against evidence to the contrary, the EPA under pruitt allowed this chemical to still be...

marketed. Enough of this industrial corruption from rump related cronies. We need to continue to watch each and every one of this idiots. pruitt needs to be investigated whether he took payments for this bad decision (I wouldn't be surprised).