{"id":1396238,"date":"2023-12-16T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=3edafe2b184e22229652b6810de7cc5b"},"modified":"2023-12-16T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T17:48:22","slug":"epa-is-considering-approval-of-pesticide-despite-not-meeting-safety-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/16\/epa-is-considering-approval-of-pesticide-despite-not-meeting-safety-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Is Considering Approval of Pesticide Despite Not Meeting Safety Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a new approval for a pesticide that would be used on Florida oranges and grapefruits despite the fact that agency scientists have repeatedly found the chemical does not meet safety standards designed to protect children&rsquo;s health, internal agency records show. EPA emails suggest that persistent pressure from chemical industry lobbyists...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/epa-is-considering-approval-of-pesticide-despite-not-meeting-safety-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/epa-is-considering-approval-of-pesticide-despite-not-meeting-safety-standards\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal emails suggest that political pressure plays a role in eschewing public health concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3514,3304,4,9235,1573],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396239,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396238\/revisions\/1396239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}