Farmworkers and Others Exposed to Toxic Diazinon Pesticide Could See Relief, as Coalition, Including LSC-Funded CRLA, Sues to Reform EPA’s “Lackadaisical Regulation”
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Author: Common Dreams Progressive Newswire
Source: Press Release
Date: 7/28/08
Common Dreams Progressive Newswire announces: "[On July 28, 2008,] a coalition of farmworker, public health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to allow continued use of a toxic pesticide called diazinon. The lawsuit is part of the coalition's multi-year campaign to protect children, farmworkers, and wildlife from the most dangerous pesticides and to reform EPA's lackadaisical regulation of public and environmental health. The coalition has filed a series of lawsuits targeted at the worst poisons on the market: diazinon is near the top of that list . . . . ‘Children and farmworkers are breathing diazinon in the air in their schools, homes, and workplaces,' said Mike Meuter, an attorney from [LSC-funded] California Rural Legal Assistance. ‘In failing to protect our children from diazinon exposures, EPA has failed us all.'"