The head of the Environmental Protection Agency met privately with Dow Chemical’s CEO ahead of an EPA decision to allow the use of a pesticide that has sickened farmworkers and is known to cause brain damage in children. The Associated Press reports EPA chief Scott Pruitt met for about half an hour with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris at a hotel in Houston, Texas, on March 9. Twenty days later, Pruitt’s agency unexpectedly reversed course and approved use of the pesticide, which is manufactured by Dow.
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