Stop The Trump EPA's Toxic Assault On Our Families' Health

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Chlorpyrifos (klor-PEER-a-foss), a widely-used nerve gas pesticide, is linked to reduced IQ, developmental delay, and increased risk of learning disabilities. The highly toxic chemical puts communities at risk when it drifts off farmland and into our air and water and leaves toxic residue on fruits and vegetables that we feed our families.

Yet President Trump's EPA recently rejected a proposed ban on chlorpyrifos — a ban recommended by the agency's own scientists — demonstrating once again that Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is willing to sacrifice our children’s health for industry profits.

Tell Acting Administrator Wheeler that you're outraged that he's siding with big polluters over the health of the American people — and urge him to protect our food supply by banning the nerve gas pesticide chlorpyrifos.

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Acting EPA Administrator Wheeler rejected a proposed ban on the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos. Tell him you're outraged that he's siding with big polluters over the health of the American people — and urge him to protect our food supply by banning chlorpyrifos.

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Andrew Wheeler, Acting EPA Administrator

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Ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos

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Dear Acting Administrator Wheeler:

I am appalled that you rejected the proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, going against the expertise of your agency's own staff and sacrificing the health of our children for chemical industry profits. I urge you to reverse course and ban this dangerous nerve gas pesticide.

EPA's own analysis less than a year ago determined that chlorpyrifos poses serious risks to children, and proposed a ban on the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops.

I urge you to reverse course and impose an immediate ban on chlorpyrifos in order to:

* Protect children from reduced IQ, developmental delay, and increased risk of learning disabilities
* Protect agricultural communities, which are at particularly high risk of exposure due to chlorpyrifos applied in nearby fields, contaminating air and water supplies in addition to our food supply 
* Protect infants from contaminated drinking water 
* Protect agricultural workers from being poisoned at unconscionable rates

I stand with thousands of American families who are united against your agency's decision to expose our children and our communities to the unnecessary and dangerous risks of highly toxic chemicals like chlorpyrifos, and we will fight you every step of the way in defense of our families' health.

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