Exporter for contacts5/29/2023 has dramatically expanded its pesticide exports while falling ever farther out of step with global standards governing those exports,” said CIEL president Carroll Muffett. “In the half century since FIFRA’s notice requirements were last updated, the U.S. statutes, multilateral agreements and other international treaties and agreements. pesticide trade, which is a common doctrine in many U.S. Today’s petition seeks to implement the principle of “prior informed consent” in U.S. This system is built on deception and shrouded in secrecy. “Pesticide companies are exploiting weak laws to dump their most toxic poisons on countries with extremely limited regulatory resources. legacy of squeezing profits out of dangerous pesticides we refuse to use ourselves by shipping them off to developing countries,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Biden EPA must end the horrifically immoral U.S. The ongoing manufacture of these banned pesticides in the United States also unfairly harms U.S. More than three-quarters are estimated to have over 30% of their agricultural workforce poisoned by pesticides each year. More than 80% of countries importing neurotoxic pesticides banned in the United States are considered “low-to-middle income” and eligible for financial-development and welfare assistance from the World Bank. Worldwide, it is estimated that 385 million people are poisoned by pesticides annually. This practice has directly fueled the influx of extremely hazardous pesticides to countries in the Global South, where they disproportionately harm Indigenous peoples and vulnerable and marginalized communities. The groups’ petition was prompted by the fact that pesticides that are manufactured in the United States, but banned from use domestically, are routinely exported to countries that often have limited resources or capacity to assess and regulate chemical risks. WASHINGTON- The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for International Environmental Law filed a legal petition today urging the Environmental Protection Agency to forbid export of pesticides banned in the United States to any country without prior consent of that country’s relevant authorities.
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