
English: 
In 1996, Congress passed a law
called The Food Quality Protection Act.
This law directed EPA to look at the way children are exposed to pesticides,
and to protect children with a very strong standard.
The standard requires the EPA find a pesticide safe
before it can be used on our food.

English: 
In 1996, Congress passed a law
called The Food Quality Protection Act.
This law directed EPA to look at the way children are exposed to pesticides,
and to protect children with a very strong standard.
The standard requires the EPA find a pesticide safe
before it can be used on our food.
EPA made decisions on chlorpyrifos in 2001 and 2006,
and it didn't ban the pesticide.
So the first thing we did is Earthjustice filed a lawsuit
on behalf of many partners: farmworkers and health groups. 

English: 
The court gave EPA a deadline of Halloween 2015 to act.
At that deadline, EPA proposed to ban chlorpyrifos across the board.
Things changed in the fall of 2016 when Donald Trump was elected.
He met with the head of Dow Chemical,
he met with the trade group that represents DOW Chemical
and the other chemical companies that make pesticides
and said, "We're are going to change the outcome."
We responded in two ways:
we filed an administrative appeal
and on the same day we went right to court.
We argued that this decision was blatantly in violation of the law
because the law requires EPA to find a pesticide safe
in order to keep it on the market and in our food.
And here, EPA had found this pesticide not safe,
and certainly Scott Pruitt could not find it safe
and he did not purport to. 
He said he wanted to "study the science."

English: 
But the law does not allow a pesticide to stay on the market for study.
As part of the decision in August of 2018,
the court ordered EPA to ban chlorpyrifos in 60 days.
EPA wasn't ready to accept that
so what they did is they asked the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
to rehear the case,
I will be arguing the case on behalf of our clients
and I feel a huge responsibility.
Earthjustice is in this fight for the long haul.
We're here with our partners,
to make sure the law is applied,
chlorpyrifos is banned,
and they and their children are protected
from this nasty pesticide.
