Last week we posted EPA to block use of chlorpyrifos on food crops; pesticide tied to neurological harm in children.
Included in the post? A call by Minnesota House Environment and Natural Resource Finance and Policy Committee Chair Rick Hansen, DFL-S. St. Paul, for action on the part of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to immediately suspend the registration of the chlorpyrifos products affected by the ban.
On Thursday, Deephaven Democratic state representative Kelly Morrison, who is a pediatrician, tweeted a copy of the letter Hansen, she and over two dozen other state lawmakers sent to state agriculture commissioner Thom Peterson:
Given recent @EPA ban on #chlorpyrifos, @reprickhansen and I and 25+ legislators sent a letter to the Commissioner of @MNagriculture urging an immediate suspension of the registration and use of this dangerous insecticide in order to protect human health in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/fFGP3TRKYg
— Kelly Morrison (@Morrison4MN) August 26, 2021
Let's hope Petersen acts quickly to protect Minnesotans in complying with the legislators' wishes.
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- EPA to block use of chlorpyrifos on food crops; pesticide tied to neurological harm in children
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- Session Daily: Pesticide scrutinized for affecting child brain development could be banned
- Session Daily: 'Problem-solving' omnibuzz environment bill passed by House
- Buzz briefs: Bee Lucky lottery tickets; Lawns to Legumes wins Environmental Initative award.
- House enviro omnibus bill centers "the people, & the land, & the water & the wildlife of MN"
- Pollinator protection bills heard today in the Minnesota House Agriculture Committee at 1PM
- MN House Republicans abjectly fail to protect pesticides from radical pollinator-hugging leftists
- Update: MNHouse GOP fails to replace pesticide industry interests over local control
- MN mom spoke out in DC on behalf of bill banning chlorpyrifos, a brain-harming pesticide (2017)
Image: Graphic from The Most Widely Used Pesticide, One Year Later, in Harvard University's SITN's Science Policy blog.
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