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AMERICA'S FARM WORKERS STILL TOIL IN FIELDS OF DANGER
2007
Overview
I wrote more than one memo to senior EPA managers explaining that the toxic exposure of farm workers during harvest put the EPA in an awful predicament. The agency had the responsibility to side with farm workers, forbidding the use of the known toxins. But the managers never responded to my reports - and with good reason. They knew things I did not. They knew that the EPA was sinking into a moral abyss. By 1980, EPA managers had to do something about the effects of the nerve poisons, documented by the Colorado study and, indirectly, by the [Clarence B. Owens] study. They knew farm workers were in constant contact with those killer sprays. But because they dared not ban the warfare chemicals from agriculture, they set up a fake \"farm worker protection program\" to take the steam off the pressure cooker. The EPA rejected the damning findings of Mr. Owens without any follow- up on the deleterious effects of sprays on the migrants.
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Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
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