While EPA ponders, California will ban insecticide chlorpyrifos

California environmental regulators announced on Wednesday that the state will ban the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos, a process that could take two years to complete. The state acted while the U.S. EPA is facing a court-imposed deadline of mid-July to decide whether to prohibit the organophosphate pesticide, which has been on the market since 1965.… » Read More

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