From Uncle the Podcast: Uncle welcomes back Pearse Redmond, the policy man, back to the show. Bobby Vaughn also joins the conversations as things come dangerously close to son-in-law’s hour. Download episode
Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide that has the potential to harm both children and farm workers, but the EPA – the same agency that drew these conclusions – says it will not ban the chemical.
On March 26, 2017, EPA chief Scott Pruitt rejected his agency’s own chemical safety experts who, under Barack Obama, had recommended that chlorpyrifos – one of the nation’s most widely used insecticides – be permanently banned from agricultural use nationwide because of the danger it poses to farm workers. [1]
