Federal court says EPA must ban pesticide linked to brain damage in children

[rangerrebew]

 


Federal court says EPA must ban pesticide linked to brain damage in children

05/28/2021 / By Divina Ramirez

Children may soon be spared from a toxic pesticide that has been linked to brain damage. On April 29, the 9th United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must ban all uses of chlorpyrifos on food or establish new residue levels for the insecticide that are safe for children.

The decision comes after more than a decade of pressuring the agency to address chlorpyrifos’s neurotoxic effects on children and farmworkers.

In 2019, health and labor groups represented by the nonprofit law organization Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the EPA after it put off any decision to end or limit the use of chlorpyrifos. This pesticide is considered moderately hazardous to humans by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its acute toxicity.

https://www.environ.news/2021-05-28-epa-must-ban-toxic-pesticide-brain-damage.html#

[rangerrebew]

I didn't think one branch of government could, per the Constitution, tell another branch how to run their business.  Am I missing something here?

[Hoodat]

I didn't think one branch of government could, per the Constitution, tell another branch how to run their business.  Am I missing something here?

Notice that the legislature (i.e. the branch that actually makes the rules) is left out of the equation.