FOLLOW ALONG HERE, as we step into FOUR states & examine in some depth how Trump-era choices r impacting the environment in harmful ways. Promise me this, before we start. Read and retweet this story. LET'S Start: PESTICIDES HURTING FARM WORKERS & CHILDREN 
First of all, the pesticide in question is known as chlorpyrifos and it is used on a long list of fruits and vegetables that anyone who goes to a mainstream supermarket in the United States sees every day. Most intense use central valley of California. This is your food folks.
The EPA had spent nearly a decade studying chlorpyrifos after getting a petition urging it to ban the pesticide. And by 2016 it had reached its verdict. It needed to be banned. The pesticide did not meet US food safety standards. EPA moved to remove it from the market.
But Scott Pruitt arrived at EPA and decided to reverse that recommendation, after Dow Chemical, the manufacturer, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration and leaned in with EPA to protest the effort to ban the pesticide.
So what happened next. Read @JohnBranchNYT extraordinary and chilling account here of the CALIFORNIA farm workers sickened as a cloud of chlorpyrifos drifted into a field where they were working. READ AND SHARE please. DISMISSING SCIENCE is the headline. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
