‘Absurd and reckless’: Trump administration uses coronavirus pandemic as cover as it loosens crop poison regulation – Raw Story | Agents of Behemoth | Scoop.it

The Trump EPA wants to reapprove a dangerous herbicide and is hiding behind the COVID-19 pandemic to excuse its manufacturer from monitoring levels of the poison in Midwest lakes and streams.The Trump EPA plans to raise the concentration of atrazine, the nation’s second-most used herbicide, allowed...