| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.
Stephen Johnson, as EPA's acting administrator, ordered an end to the planned study, a reversal from the agency's position just a day earlier when it said it would await the advice of outside scientific experts. The aim of the study, Johnson said, was to fill data gaps on children's exposure to household pesticides and chemicals. He suspended it last November after ethical questions were raised by scientists within EPA and by environmentalists. Over the study's two years, EPA had planned to give $970 plus a camcorder and children's clothes to each of the families of 60 children in Duval County, Fla., in what critics of the study noted was a low-income minority neighborhood. EPA also had agreed to accept $2 million for the $9 million ``Children's Health Environmental Exposure Research Study'' from the American Chemistry Council, a trade group that represents chemical makers. |
The federal government was going to pay low income families to use pesticides in their homes and monitor the impact on it had on their kids.
I'll let that sink in for a moment.
You got that?
Your tax dollars were going to pay families to expose infants to pesticides. A "culture of life" and all that, right?
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