On the eve of the Mar. 26 hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Earthjustice attorney Patti Goldman breaks down Earthjustice's case seeking a ban on chlorpyrifos nationwide.
Filed by Earthjustice on behalf of Farmworker Association of Florida, Farmworker Justice, Migrant Clinicians Network, and Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida.
El hijo de Claudia Angulo nació con problemas intelectuales luego de que ella estuvo expuesta al clorpirifós durante su embarazo. Ella ahora está luchando por prohibir el pesticida.
Claudia Angulo's son was born with developmental delays after she was exposed to chlorpyrifos during her pregnancy. She's fighting for a ban on the pesticide.
Earthjustice is fighting to stop the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are wiping out beneficial insects and threatening the health of our planet.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules health and labor organizations will have to argue, again, in court that chlorpyrifos, a brain-damaging pesticide, must be banned from all food use. The decision comes four months after Andrew Wheeler’s Environmental Protection Agency asked the court to rehear the case.
The Trump administration is acutely aware of science’s role in pushing for effective government regulation, so it’s instituted a sneak attack on science.
