Carol Browner on Pesticides

Living on Earth

Host Steve Curwood talks to EPA Administrator Carol Browner about the Administration’s new pesticide plan. The plan would reduce children’s risk of exposure to harmful chemicals, and remove some risky pesticides from use entirely. But it could also repeal the Delaney Clause, which requires zero concentration of carcinogens in processed foods, which alarms some critics.

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