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Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Continued Use of Four Pesticides
May 13 2008, Brenton

Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.

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Anti-Pesticide environmental campaigner Georgina Downs speaks to the media outside the High Court in London, Friday Nov. 14, 2008, following her victory in a legal test case to force the government to introduce stricter control in the spraying of...

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