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Tell the EPA to ban this brain-damaging pesticide
A toxic pesticide called chlorpyrifos that’s proven to damage the developing brains of children could be reapproved soon by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)!
Public comment is needed to force a ban or cancellation of this neurotoxic
insecticide before it causes even more irreparable harm to children,
farmworkers, and future generations.
The public comment period ends in six days.
Click here to tell EPA to ban the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos!
Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxin and long-term studies have demonstrated conclusively that children exposed to chlorpyrifos in the womb suffer from higher rates of a broad range of developmental disorders, including reduced IQ, memory deficits, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
A ban on the pesticide is widely supported by the medical science community.
Back in 2015, EPA actually proposed banning chlorpyrifos. In response, Dow AgroSciences, its largest manufacturer, moved aggressively to get the ban proposal lifted by exploiting the prior administration's hostility to science and EPA regulations that protect public health and the environment. As a result, in 2017 the EPA reneged on the proposed ban and again refused to ban chlorpyrifos in 2019.
Several states — including the nation's largest agricultural producer, California, in addition to New York and Hawaii — have already opted to phase out or ban chlorpyrifos due to its widely-studied human health and environmental harms.
But this is a national problem that is cross-border and impacts us all.