The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1987
U.S. District Judge Louis Oberdorfer ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to explain why it is allowing use of existing stocks of two cancer-linked anti-termite chemicals whose manufacturer has agreed to stop selling them. Eight environment and consumer groups, two unions and an individual had asked an immediate halt to use of the pesticides, chlordane and heptachlor. The judge instead ordered the government to produce all the documentation it used in deciding to allow a two-month supply of the chemicals to be used up.
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