Health and Farmworker Advocates Urge Ban of Herbicide Linked to Parkinson’s

“It is possible to have an agriculture system that does not depend so heavily on paraquat and it does not have to be a pesticide that puts so many people’s lives at risk.”

Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group speaks Tuesday, Sept. 17, at a Capitol Hill briefing urging the EPA to ban the use of the herbicide paraquat dichloride to protect farmworkers. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa / States Newsroom)

Public health advocates and farmworkers called for a federal ban on a toxic herbicide they say led to their Parkinson’s …