date:Jul 26, 2019
ed regarding the significance of the data addressing neurodevelopmental effects.
Pruitt declared EPA needed to provide regulatory certainty to the thousands of American farms that rely on chlorpyrifos and said the agency would conduct more research before determining whether the pesticide should be removed from the market.
Environmentalists then sued the agency. In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered EPA to act within three months on the petition to ban chlorpyrifos,