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Environmental Justice: On Kauai, Chlorpyrifos Puts Children At  Risk
Kauai, Environmental Justice, Chlorpyrifos Teddy Basham-Witherington Kauai, Environmental Justice, Chlorpyrifos Teddy Basham-Witherington

Environmental Justice: On Kauai, Chlorpyrifos Puts Children At Risk

The AAP and the Environmental Working Group (EWG) wrote last month to Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describing the dangers of pesticides, and of chlorpyrifos specifically. They stated that they were “deeply alarmed” that Scott Pruitt had overridden the EPA’s own recommendation to ban the use of chlorpyrifos on all food crops. They said that Pruitt’s decision “contradicts the agency’s own science and puts developing fetuses, infants, children and pregnant women at risk.”

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Kauai Community Takes On Syngenta To Demand Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice, Kauai, Pesticides Teddy Basham-Witherington Environmental Justice, Kauai, Pesticides Teddy Basham-Witherington

Kauai Community Takes On Syngenta To Demand Environmental Justice

One leaves the Garden Island wondering why the people of this breathtakingly beautiful island need to play Russian roulette and hope they don’t become a statistic in a cancer cluster when people in the countries where these companies are headquartered live by the precautionary principle. Switzerland, home of Syngenta, has banned the use of the very chemicals that continue to drench the soil of the Garden island.

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