EPA lowers fine against Syngenta for pesticide misuse

Syngenta announced this week that it will pay $550,000 in fines after the Environmental Protection Agency found that it misused the pesticide chlorpyrifos at a test field in Hawaii. The fine is dramatically lower than the nearly $5 million initially sought by the Obama administration. Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA chief, overruled a recommendation by agency… » Read More

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