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The Environmental Protection Agency endangers public health by refusing to require disclosure of falsely characterized "inert" ingredients in pesticides, environmentalist claim in court.
The Center for Environmental Health, Beyond Pesticides and Physicians for Social Responsibility sued the EPA and its Administrator Gina McCarthy in Federal Court on Wednesday, under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
"What we're challenging is EPA's inaction despite a body of evidence" that inert pesticide ingredients can be just as harmful as active ones, plaintiffs' attorney Yana Garcia told Courthouse News.
"Chemicals listed as inert are not inert," she said. "Consumers think the inert ingredients are water or other benign substances used to mix the chemicals, but many are carcinogenic and others have acute impacts and still others have impacts that are currently unknown."
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- July 21, 2015 5:01 am
