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PBS NewsHour: What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

 

Citrus growers hope to fend off fruit-munching katydids, but one weapon is under scrutiny. Researchers found that children growing up near fields where the insecticide chlorpyrifos was deployed exhibited autism-like symptoms. A court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the insecticide’s use, but Trump’s EPA is fighting back. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.