"The Trump administration is assailing the science behind an influential study that helped lead to a ban on a widely used insecticide linked to brain damage in children, mirroring arguments made by the pesticide industry.
A federal appeals court this month dealt a blow to President Trump's team when it ordered EPA to implement a full prohibition of the bug killer chlorpyrifos. The ban was proposed by the Obama administration but rejected when then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt called for studying the insecticide for another five years (Greenwire, Aug. 9).
After the court's rebuke, EPA took aim at a study from Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health that showed the troubling real-world impacts of chlorpyrifos on children that helped prompt the ban."
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