The Nation - News from Jan. 28, 1987

The Environmental Protection Agency will permit three controversial pesticides, two of them banned in Massachusetts, New York and several foreign countries, to be used while it tries to make up its mind about them. In the meantime, the agency said it was asking manufacturers to tighten use restrictions. The federal actions do not affect the two states’ bans on chlordane and its chemical cousin heptachlor. The third compound is aldrin. The chemicals are used mostly to fight termites.