Environmental Groups Seek Ban of Common Pesticide

February 6, 2013

Three environmental groups will make the case in court Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to act on their petition to the agency to ban a common pesticide, chlorpyrifos.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will be in Seattle to hear oral arguments in the case. The EPA banned home use of chlorpyrifos in 2001 because it can harm the nervous system. But it’s still commonly used on crops like wheat, alfalfa and apples in Oregon’s Willamette Valley and in Eastern Washington.

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