Breaking News
'Revolution' - Dr. Ron Paul
'Non-intervention' - Daniel McAdams
AI Emergency: The AI Labs Are Lying To Everyone, He Says 99% Chance Of Extinction...
A Special Message from Tucker Carlson
Top Tech News
World's smallest CT scanner fits in the palm of your hand
The Tesla Roadster will blow people's minds
Peter Thiel-Funded Company Anduril to Triple the Number of Autonomous Surveillance Towers...
Quantum computing may soon become part of the microscope itself.
Volkswagen Just Unveiled The Most Efficient EV Ever Tested
NASA Super Light Solar Sail Project Will Be 12-40 Times Lighter and Faster
Space Telescope Interferometer to Image Exoplanet Continents
Twenty-five years of "temporary": how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never vote
I'll Never Buy Another WALMART Battery!
Shoei GT-Air 3 Smart helmet drops with built-in AR for $1,500
'Unconscionable': EPA to Only Partially Ban Pesticide Known to Harm Developing Babies
By Carey Gillam
The long and winding regulatory road for a pesticide known to be harmful to developing babies took another turn on Monday as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was planning to only partially ban the insecticide chlorpyrifos in farming.
Under pressure from powerful agricultural industry interests and ordered by a federal court to consider the factors raised by the farming groups in a legal petition, the EPA said it would continue to allow chlorpyrifos to be used by farmers growing 11 crops, including apples, asparagus, citrus, peaches, strawberries, wheat, soybeans and others, despite evidence that the pesticide is associated with "neurodevelopmental effects" that can impair the normal development of children.
Other uses in farming would be banned, the agency said.