The following article by Sarah Okeson was posted on the DC Reports website November 21, 2017:
Pesticide Makers Seek to Bar Scientists from Assessing How Their Poisons Affect Endangered Species
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt overruled his own scientists to prevent an agriculture ban of a DowDuPont pesticide that causes brain damage in children, and now pesticide manufacturers have their sights set on undermining federal protections for endangered animals like the whooping crane.
A draft bill being shopped around by the pesticide industry would bar expert wildlife scientists from assessing what harm pesticides can do to about 1,800 endangered species unless the makers of those pesticides ask for their input, according to the Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups. Continue reading “‘We Don’t Need No Stinking Science!’”