dailycaller
Chris White
5:48 PM 07/26/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/26/epa-finally-allows-chicago-to-kill-rat-population-after-animal-rights-complaints/The Environmental Protection Agency has given Chicago permission to kill the city’s rat population with dry ice over the objection of animal rights groups.
City officials enacted the pilot program in August 2016 that used dry ice to suffocate rats underground. The policy was temporarily scuttled in December of that year after the city learned the EPA had not approved the program, officials said Tuesday.
“The dry ice method serves as a safe and quick approach that essentially puts rats to sleep before they perish,” Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Charles Williams told reporters. It is an effective way to terminate the Chicago’s rats, most of which congregate in city parks.
