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Trump’s EPA works for the pesticide industry, approves new ‘forever chemicals’

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved three new pesticides widely recognized as “forever chemicals” (PFAS) for use on food crops. The pesticides were approved not long after Kyle Kunkler, a former lobbyist for the American Soybean Association—an agriculture trade group who advocates against regulations of pesticides—took over as the EPA’s top pesticides officer. […]

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