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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., reintroduced legislation to ban paraquat, neonicotinoids and organophosphates, insecticides he said are dangerous for children and farmworkers. ....
Judge Brian Morris, chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, Great Falls, vacated the rule at the request of the Biden administration, overturning one of former President Donald Trump’s last actions taken prior to leaving office. “It took a federal court just days to reject the Trump EPA’s obvious lawbreaking,” Vijay Limaye, a climate and health scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said in a statement. “This is a major victory for people’s health.” “Science matters again,” said Limaye, “and it will again guide how to best protect people from dangerous pollution and toxic chemicals.” ....
Photo credit: Joe Raedle, Getty Images staff Hours after his inauguration, President Biden issued an executive order to review 48 actions by the Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency, including several controversial decisions on agricultural chemicals. Environmental and food safety groups saw the action as a welcome sign that the Biden EPA will begin to temper what they see as the agency’s industry-friendly stance and prioritize the environment, public health, and science. Most notably, the review list included the pesticide chlorpyrifos, whose 2017 ban was reversed by the Trump administration; a rule that weakened pesticide application safety standards; and another rule narrowing which scientific studies could be used in pesticide evaluations. ....