The ecological risk assessment for #chlorpyrifos was released today. The career scientists at EPA found that invertebrates could be exposed to more than 8,600-fold more than the level known to harm them
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USAEP…
For mammals it's 1,900-fold more than the level known to cause harm. For birds it's 380-fold. For fish it's 160-fold.
The Fish and Wildlife Service found that #chlorpyrifos would put 1,400 endangered species at risk of extinction?
No wonder
nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/…
Our pesticide laws are designed to protect the pesticide industry and Big Ag.
These laws allow them to profit at the expense of our natural world
This is why I support #PACTPA. And you should too
act.biologicaldiversity.org/onlineactions/…
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