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June 29, 2017

Associated Press: EPA Chief Met Dow CEO Ahead of Pesticide Approval
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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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