[DHT]Osiris
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Probably referring to this
"WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, moved late on Wednesday to reject the scientific conclusion of the agency’s own chemical safety experts who under the Obama administration recommended that one of the nation’s most widely used insecticides be permanently banned at farms nationwide because of the harm it potentially causes children and farm workers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/epa-insecticide-chlorpyrifos.html?_r=0
Interesting, sounds like Dow is stating that when used correctly it's fine. After skimming through the advisory panel document it seems like there may have been some issues with the testing methodology that led the EPA team to recommending it be banned, however having said that, at no point in it did I see anything to suggest the stuff is actually safe... just that the request for ban may have been premature/based on iffy testing methods. That may mean that the danger was being overstated (most stuff is toxic in enough quantities), or that it is indeed very harmful (notably to fetuses when exposed through the mother... seemingly the focus on the advisory panel) and should be banned.
Either way the issue cannot be retouched until 2022, so 'protection of our agriculture jobs' can be a bullet point on Trump's list I suppose.