
Tell the EPA: Phase out toxic chlorpyrifos
This brain-damaging pesticide harms our environment and our health. It's time to ban it.
The brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos poses an unacceptable risk to both the environment and our health.
Chlorpyrifos poses a threat to a shocking 97% of the endangered species in America.
Any chemical that has the destructive power to threaten almost every species of endangered plant and animal in our country should not be sprayed into our environment. But chlorpyrifos is currently being used on food crops of all kinds in most states.
The EPA is currently considering partial restrictions on chlorpyrifos — and we have until February 10 to convince the agency to go through with it.
To protect our environment and our health, we need to tell the EPA to set strong limits on chlorpyrifos use.
Chlorpyrifos “works” as a pesticide by causing brain damage. It’s meant to target insects, but when kids get exposed to this chemical, it harms their brains too.
Between the threat it poses to human health and its devastating impacts on wildlife and wild places, chlorpyrifos should have no place in our food supply.
The EPA’s current proposal would ban the use of chlorpyrifos on some crops, but it doesn’t go far enough. The proposed rule would still allow chlorpyrifos to be sprayed on 11 different types of crops.
This isn’t the first time we’ve had to take action to stop chlorpyrifos. That’s how we know we can win: The EPA has listened before.
The dangers of chlorpyrifos are so well understood that the EPA agreed to a total ban on the pesticide in 2021. But just a few years later, a court overturned that ban — and chlorpyrifos returned to orchards and crop fields nationwide.
Now is our chance to convince the EPA to do the right thing and put the strongest possible limits on this brain-damaging chemical.
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This brain-damaging pesticide harms our environment and our health. It's time to ban it.
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