Morgan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday reversed an Obama administration recommendation to ban a pesticide linked to nervous system damage in children.

Newly installed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt signed an order that would allow farmers to continue using chlorpyrifos, which is sprayed on more than a dozen crops, including tree nuts, soybeans, corn, wheat, apples and citrus.

The Obama administration had announced in 2015 that the agency would adopt a “zero tolerance” policy for residue of the chemical on food, a move that effectively would have ended its use.

About 5 million to 10 million pounds of chlorpyrifos, manufactured by DowAgroSciences, are used annually on crops nationwide. The chemical is an organophosph**e, a class of chemicals originally designed as a nerve agent weapon.

read more full article: http://basictechnews.com/2017/03/30/trump-administration-reverses-course-on-nerve-agent-pesticide/

One example of this is in the recent discovery of toxins(as arsenic) our children take in by large juice companies from using china fruits such as apples, instead of our own...now apparently, we've slumped down to their level again for profit over people, now our children, our future.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Pruitt overruled the EPA's own scientific findings, which supported the ban. Wanna guess which company makes it? Yep, Trump's very bested buddy - Dow Chemical. Trump is keeping his promise to "help the forgotten people" - by forgetting them.

Morgan

Yes I did read about Dow, it always goes to big money push, do you also want to bet these guys have their own organic meats(raised cattle) and vegetables, they always make sure they're safe. After this new EPA deregulation we can go to see how Trump has taken away protections for wage theft and unsafe working conditions. What person in their right mind would take those protections away from the people, there once again is this administrations t***sparency.

robmull Loc: florida

At least you "lefty's" are getting off grandma being pushed over-the-cliff, comrade. "Our children, our future." Really. Just another bunch of "lefty" crap. Go to "Dearbornistan," if you want to see what BHO {or wh**ever his name really is} did to America. Or perhaps visit a few of the 22+? radical Islamic "jihad" training camps encircling our "Shining Light on the Hill," before you rag about "lefty" regulations that were only (D)esigned to (D)eport American business'!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRESIDENT "45" DONALD J. TRUMP (R); JUST LIKE THE WEATHER!!!

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

How many businesses have returned? Yep, zero. It will cost taxpayers 10 billion dollars for the Flint Michigan water fiasco, which was done to save money by a Republican administration. See the problem here? GOP is willing to trade the lives of children - for more profit. Those "lefties" are the only people between the GOP and your continued existence.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

And now, the rest of the story:

"Chlorpyrifos’ broad-spectrum effectiveness on target pests, flexibility for use in multiple delivery systems, and relatively short persistence has resulted in its adoption in integrated pest management programs (IPMs) in cropping systems around the world. Despite its extensive use for over 40 years there have been few instances of significant resistance by pests. Chlorpyrifos is a reliable rotation partner in insect resistance management programs that helps preserve the long-term effectiveness of insecticides with other modes of action. All of this contributes to reduced use of other pesticides, such as pyrethroids, which may be more harmful to beneficial insects. And this can lead to reduced farming costs, and allow growers to keep the cost of the produce lower, and a sustainable food supply".

Many edicts from the Obama administration, rather than promote commerce and facilitate progress, appear to be designed to reverse progress and hobble competitiveness. An effective and (apparently) harmless pesticide, in use for over 40 years, and previously approved for agricultural use by the EPA, is suddenly found to be a menace to society and banned from being used in the United States. Nowhere else. Just in the US. Why? What did the Obama administration discover that the rest of the world simply does not see, and why have they kept it to themselves?

I smell a rat. A rat named Monsanto.

http://www.chlorpyrifos.com/benefits-and-use/use/

Once again, Thank You, President Trump, for reversing yet another handicap imposed by the previous administration, as led by a person of dubious origin, who made many efforts to hide his past and egregiously abuse the many latitudes afforded him. “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone”, he famously said, referring to his disagreements with Congress.

Morgan

The Obama administration had announced in 2015 that the agency would adopt a “zero tolerance” policy for residue of the chemical on food, a move that effectively would have ended its use.


Trump doesn't give a s**t what happens to our children and if you agree with this than apparently neither do you, why do you align yourself with this type contemptible person? I would think anyone who may have served in Vietnam would be especially and absolutely against being poisoned by chemicals, I know my brother would be, but he's already dead by the effects of agent orange. Did you miss what this chemical was originally created for? Some things go beyond party lines. Country First right?

Morgan

You can say all you want about Monsanto, I'm against him also, but your reply still doesn't condone what Trump has recently done, it is in no way shape or form for the betterment of the people. It is money over the peoples welfare. Buy American apples.( now definitely organic thanks to Trump)

Again: About 5 million to 10 million pounds of chlorpyrifos, manufactured by DowAgroSciences, are used annually on crops nationwide. The chemical is an organophosph**e, a class of chemicals originally designed as a nerve agent weapon.

"Kristin Schafer, policy director at Pesticide Action Network, accused EPA of caving to corporate pressure."

Morgan

The fact that you choose corporate money over just one innocent child speaks volumes about you. You turn a blind eye because for some reason it suits you to sleep at night, you and your leader Trump. We know he sleeps as good as Hitler, no conscience there.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Classic liberal tagline "It's for the children! You don't care about the children! You're a monster to the children!". What a crock. This stuff has been in use for 40 years and to no ill effect, all of a sudden it's banned for the children. Gimme a freaking break. It was banned because the United Stated was feeding itself and exporting surpluses around the world without the use of Monsanto produced, genetically modified seed stock. Wake up and smell the coffee.

vernon

This is bull shot the stuff has been out there for years.this stuff has been detoxified.we have been spraying this for years.I sure h**e you feel forgotten but that sounds a lot like whining to me.

Morgan

What is your delusion along with others is that you actually know me, your delusion is laughable, what's the t***h is the fact that you folks continually prove the only children you care about is the unborn, once born you just assume trash them. Yep I'm a real monster, you and American Only must sit back together and throw back your beers, you sound the same with your nonsense.


You wake up to the ignorant mindset that democrats or liberals support Monsanto, look to see who fights against them.

robmull Loc: florida

The "TRUMP TRAIN" (R), LtL, is getting bigger and stronger and faster with each and every "(R)eversing {of} yet another handicap imposed by the previous {"red-(D)iaper"}administration... Thank you, President Trump!!!" The LAST thing "lefty" wants is to see, after over a century of trying to slither into our "experimental" Western free-market Republic, is President Trump (R), {or ANY American conservative patriot}, attempting to "MAKE AMERICA SAFE, PROSPEROUS AND GREAT AGAN." Open borders and mass-importation {mostly at American taxpayer expense}, of more free-loading (D)emonrats, would have made the now plotting, scheming, r**ting, vandalizing, burning, "PIG" k*****g, "TRUMP IS NOT MY PRESIDENT," anarchist "lefty's, the playing-field that's been in their Marxist (D)eceptive infestation and infection of our "Shining Light on the Hill," since the MSM, "entertainment," and the (D)emonrat Party merged, circa 1897!!! Hummmmmmmmmm. What IS that "crushing" noise I keep hearing??? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRESIDENT "45" DONALD J. {BORN AGAIN} TRUMP (R); JUST LIKE THE WEATHER!!! "(D)RAIN THAT {RADICAL LOONY SECULAR JACKASS LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE "LEFTY"} SWAMP!!!"

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

This is litigation that goes back to 2006 where the EPA had repeatedly denied the chemical was dangerous.. Then they reversed their stance, it was dangerous and then said after almost 10 years of doing nothing there was cutting edge science that skewed the potential harm..:1 In its Response at 28, EPA incorrectly asserts that PAN/NRDC bear the burden of proving that chlorpyrifos is unsafe, but the FQPA places the burden on EPA to find a pesticide is safe. EPA also argues that it need not apply a tenfold FQPA safety factor based on its 2006 risk assessment, even though it has since determined in its 2014 and 2016 risk assessment and proposed tolerance revocations that a tenfold FQPA safety factor is required to protect children from prenatal neuro- developmental harm from chlorpyrifos. EPA Response at 28-30. As this Court recognized, EPA “has backtracked significantly from” its 2006 pronouncement over the last several years. 798 F.3d at 814.

EPA’s March 29, 2017 Response is remarkable in its utter silence as to EPA’s previous findings. Nowhere does EPA suggest that it has reconsidered its finding that chlorpyrifos is unsafe. Nor does EPA address how it can legally maintain chlorpyrifos tolerances in the face of its findings that chlorpyrifos exposures are unsafe. EPA’s only justification for failing to take action in the face of its prior findings that chlorpyrifos exposures are unsafe is its preference to engage in further study and its belief (addressed below) that this Court has not and cannot order it to act before October 2022. EPA has not withdrawn the proposed rule, but has merely decided not to finalize it or take other regulatory action until some unspecified time prior to October 1, 2022. EPA Response at 37. This approach runs counter to EPA’s representations to the Court that it would revoke all chlorpyrifos tolerances unless the registrants agreed to mitigation that would ensure the exposures would be safe, see EPA Response at 14, or its further assessments showed exposures are at safe levels. Decl. of Jack Housenger in Support of Opposition to Petition for a Writ of Mandamus ¶ 22 n.15 (July 23, 2012) (Dkt. No. 1-2).
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This Court has already rejected EPA’s pleas for more time to study chlorpyrifos before taking regulatory action. The Court opened its August 2015

Order granting a writ of mandamus, stating: “Although filibustering may be a venerable tradition in the United States Senate, it is frowned upon in administrative agencies tasked with protecting human health.” 798 F.3d at 811. EPA had emphasized that the scientific issues are “on the cutting edge of science,” involving “novel scientific questions . . . on the frontiers of science.” Decl. of Dana Vogel in Support of EPA’s Response to Renewed Petition for a Writ of Mandamus ¶ 5 (Dec. 18, 2014) (Dkt. No. 7-2); see also Housenger Decl. ¶¶ 11, 15, 24 (“novel questions,” “on the edge of evolving science,” complex and important scientific issues). In July 2013, this Court denied PAN/NRDC’s earlier petition for a writ of mandamus, in part because of the complicated scientific issues. After EPA delayed further, this Court ruled in 2015 that spending nearly a decade reviewing the scientific issues without taking regulatory action was too little, too late. Compare In re Pesticide Action Network N. Am., 532 Fed. Appx. 649, 651 (9th Cir. 2013) with 798 F.3d at 811. And in August 2016, this Court refused to allow EPA to delay taking final regulatory action, calling the nine-year delay “objectively extreme” and making it clear that the time for further study had come and gone. Order of August 12, 2016 (Dkt. No. 51).

Emphases added EPA, delays and doing nothing to prove their case resulted in an order to sign off on the regulations they put in place but failed to prove..was an order granting a writ of mandamus...

EPA lost this case by doing nothing.. courts final judgement entry is Aug 2016., Well before Trump or his Director were involved. In other words EPA still did nothing upon the final judgement entry Aug 2016 and now had to sign off on it! Blame falls squarely to the EPA which was under BO Adm...They blew it, no one else.. and what an egregious flimflam abyss they created in it too.. Once again the people suffer for the BS in legally botched case handling..

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Your facts are correct as I read in the litigation as well..

What the EPA did was to convoy the courts, not just the lower court but the Supreme Court of the 9th circuit with conflicting and unverified opinions of the chemical not being dangerous to being dangerous to new edge cutting science requires more study.. The court admonished them on many occasions and told them 10 years of litigation failing to perform and produce left the court with reason that the EPA could not sustain their claims and to remove the regulatory limits they had imposed.. Signed off Aug 2016..

President Trump nor Dow nor his Director were involved in this case..BO was involved as was his EPA director..