Anonymous,

The European Union (EU) just effectively banned a pesticide commonly found on our fruits and vegetables due to its severe health risks for kids.[1]

Our Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should ban it too.[2]

Tell the EPA: Protect kids' health. Ban chlorpyrifos in the United States.
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Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide used on citrus trees, apple orchards, strawberries, broccoli and more. It's also incredibly toxic, especially for children, and leaves behind a residue on the fruits and vegetables we feed our families. Children can ingest up to 140 times the safety limit.[3]

EPA scientists have linked chlorpyrifos to serious health problems for children, including neurological disorders.[4] The agency has even banned it from most household uses because it's so toxic.[5]

But under the Trump administration, the EPA has walked back efforts ban the pesticide nationwide -- putting more children at risk.

Send your message to the EPA now.
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In 2017, President Trump's first EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, chose to keep chlorpyrifos on the market against the recommendations of his agency's own scientists -- spurring several lawsuits.[6]

In April, a federal appeals court ordered the EPA to issue a final ruling on whether to ban the pesticide by July 2019. The administration again refused to ban chlorpyrifos.[7]

It's beyond time to stop putting kids' health at risk in the United States.

The EPA is supposed to use caution when it comes to risky pesticides. It needs to take more seriously the danger posed to our kids by chlorpyrifos.
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Tell the EPA: Ban chlorpyrifos now.
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Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Oscar Schneider, "EU Member States agree to ban controversial insecticide," The Brussels Times, December 7, 2019.
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2. Lisa Friedman, "E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems," The New York Times, July 18 2019.
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3. "Updated Human Health Risk Analyses for Chlorpyrifos," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, November 17, 2016.
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4. Timothy Cama, "Court to reconsider ordering EPA to ban pesticide," The Hill, February 7, 2019.
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5. CCEH Team, "April 30, 2012: Prenatal Exposure to the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos Linked to Alterations in Brain Structure and Cognition," Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, April 30, 2012.
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6. Eric Lipton, "E.P.A. Chief, Rejecting Agency's Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide," The New York Times, March 29, 2017.
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7. Lisa Friedman, "E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems," The New York Times, July 18 2019.
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