How Canada keeps toxic pesticides on the market

Proposed reforms to pesticide regulations place immediate economic considerations above health costs that are harder to measure in quarterly budgets, but are very real in people’s lives.
Canada’s proposed pesticide reforms move in the wrong direction, writes Bruce Lanphear.

For more than half a century, pesticides like chlorpyrifos and paraquat were used under regulations that were supposed to protect human health. Yet, one is now known to damage children’s brain development, while the o...

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