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Pesticide Studies Won E.P.A.’s Trust, Until Trump’s Team Scorned ‘Secret Science’

August 24, 2018 By Allison Wilson

For years, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have been studying the effects of pesticides on California farm workers and their children. Partly funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, findings from this important epidemiology research have been used to argue for restrictions on toxins such as insecticides.

The research has found links between pesticides sprayed on fruit and vegetable crops and “respiratory complications, developmental disorders and lower I.Q.s among children of farm workers.”

According to the article:
“.. weeks after Donald J. Trump was elected president, CropLife America, the main agrochemical trade group, petitioned the E.P.A. to “halt regulatory decisions that are highly influenced and/or determined by the results of epidemiological studies” unless universities were forced to share more of their data.”

The article, published in the New York Times on August 24, 2018 was written by Danny Hakim and Eric Lipton.

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/business/epa-pesticides-studies-epidemiology.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: attacks on science, California, chemical industry, collusion, CropLife, developmental disorders, EPA, health impacts, industrial agriculture, respiratory complications, Tobacco Industry, toxic, Trump

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