Greenville Diaznon

The World

Terry Fitzpatrick reports on problems with Diazinon, a common lawn and garden bug killer, showing up in the surface water in Greenville, Texas, a community just north of Dallas. The community launched an intensive public education campaign to get people to stop using the chemical  ? and it worked.

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