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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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