“President Biden campaigned with the slogan of ‘Science over Fiction,’ but the EPA’s decision to cancel all tolerances of chlorpyrifos does not live up to that standard or to the EPA’s commitment to scientific integrity,” Novak said in a written statement. “Decades of review by EPA career staff and independent scientific advisory panels have repeatedly supported safe uses for this product, yet this decision comes without a full scientific review or a thoughtful assessment of the beneficial uses of this product.”

Source: Washington Post August 18, 2021 18:56 UTC