EPA scientists recommended a total ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos. But in 2017, Trump's EPA administrator at the time decided against that. Now, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether to make the agency ban it.
Eric Perez and his wife, Mari, live with their five children in the Wenatchee Valley in central Washington state. Their house is just feet from an orchard. A couple of years ago, the kids were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard when they smelled something"plasticky," Perez remembers — like"rotten eggs."
Perez says they got stomachaches, started throwing up and having trouble breathing and got diarrhea and scratchy throats.Washington's Department of Agriculture investigated and found evidence that a pesticide called chlorpyrifos had drifted onto the Perez's property from the neighboring orchard. "There are developmental effects in children and in the fetus during pregnancy," he says."We may see slower learning, not making progress in school as quickly as other students."
A group of environmental and farmworkers organizations that want a total ban sued the EPA. Last August, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the EPA had to ban chlorpyrifos. But the EPA appealed that decision, and now the full 9th Circuit is reconsidering the ruling.Sean Gilbert is a fifth-generation farmer in Yakima, Washington. He grows apples and other tree fruit. He says he sometimes uses chlorpyrifos in his orchards.
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