EPA Urged to Act to Protect Marginalized Groups From Pesticides

More than 120 environmental justice and other advocacy groups Wednesday called on the EPA to make sweeping changes to its pesticide regulations and policies to better protect communities of color and other communities disproportionately effected by the chemicals.

“Pesticides are one of the most widespread environmental pollutants that we purposefully dump into the environment and their societal harms are unequally being borne” by communities of color across the country, said Robert Bullard, director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University.

The center joined public health, environmental, and farm worker advocacy groups in pushing Environmental ...