Court Overturns EPA Approval of Toxic Herbicide

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A few days ago, an appeals court stood up against the Trump EPA for its continued siding with chemical companies and defiance of its mandate to protect public health, and ordered the EPA to withdraw approval of one of the most toxic herbicide used in agriculture, Dicamba.

In an article from NBC News:

We hold that the EPA substantially understated risks that it acknowledged and failed entirely to acknowledge other risks.

Read full article here.

This is long overdue. We all need less, far less, exposure to chemicals in general, but especially insecticides and herbicides which are biologic poisons that harm humans, wildlife, and beneficial insects like pollinators.