date:Aug 15, 2018
11 years of lawsuits, reviews and delays by the Environmental Protection Agency, federal judges last week ordered the agency to ban chlorpyrifos, a widespread agricultural pesticide derived from a class of chemicals first used to develop World War II nerve agents.
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that there was no justification for the EPA to allow any amount of chlorpyrifos on fruits and vegetables in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food causes neurodevelopment