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U S Fish and Wildlife Service Refuses to Protect Any Endangered Species From Neurotoxic Pesticide
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Federal Analysis Finds Insecticide Malathion Imperils Continued Existence of 78 Endangered Plants, Animals
Using Trump-era Guidelines, ‘Jeopardy’ Calls Reduced from 1,284 to 78 Species
WASHINGTON A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analysis released today has found that the commonly used insecticide malathion jeopardizes the continued existence of 78 endangered plants and animals.
The analysis is one of most extreme findings of harm ever published by the Service. Yet it represents a dramatic departure from the findings of an Obama administration analysis scrapped by the Trump administration that found malathion jeopardized 1,284 endangered plants and animals.
Today’s analysis deploys former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s methods to discount the harms of the pesticide by unlawfully relying on incomplete, unreliable estimates of its use rather than looking more broadly at the overall effects of i