Trump’s EPA has refused to ban a pesticide linked to brain damage in children, because corporate profits don't grow on trees
In a normal universe, like the one we inhabited until January 20, 2017, it would be considered a no-brainer to outlaw the use of a pesticide linked to neurological damage in children. That‘s why, in 2015, the Obama administration proposed to revoke all uses of chlorpyrifos, exposure to which studies had shown led to lower birth weight and reduced IQ, among a host of harmful effects.
Presumably, one of the groups extremely happy with the decision was Dow Chemical, which sells approximately 5 million pounds of chlorpyrifos in the U.S.
$1 million to underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities, though anyone even entertaining the idea that the seven-figure check was intended to grease the administration’s wheels should put a sock in it.Dow’s director of public affairs, told the AP at the time that any such suggestion was “completely off the mark.”
The administration’s move to keep chlorpyrifos on the market comes as states like California and New York have taken steps to ban the pesticide outright. In May, California health officials said they did so in light of strong evidence that it “causes serious health effects in children and other sensitive populations at lower levels of exposure than previously understood.
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