US Senators Urge EPA to Keep Protecting Kids from Pesticides

Expand Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, answers a question during the Concordia Summit in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Yesterday, while the world watched as US President Donald Trump fired his Secretary of State and reshuffled people in two top posts, 28 US senators made an important move that might not make headlines: They protested US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposals to weaken pesticide protections for children. The lawmakers wrote to Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after the EPA announced it was…

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