Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of Pesticides布什政府提起诉讼，让除害剂的使用
By通过 Jo Hartley赵哈特利 | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. |环境和农场职工群体，现在提起诉讼，布什政府允许继续使用4种农药。 They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.他们宣称，政府置之不理，自己的证据表明，有毒化学品的工人，儿童和动物。
The suit challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2006 decision to reauthorize the four pesticides used on fruit and vegetable fields in California.诉讼挑战，环境保护署于2006年决定重新授权了4种农药使用的水果和蔬菜领域，在加利福尼亚州。
A 1996 federal law required the EPA to reassess the safety of all pesticides used on foods. 1996年的一项联邦法律，要求环保局重新所有人的安全，农药使用的食品。 Based on this reassessment,在此基础上重新评估， the EPA环保局 was to decide whether to approve their use.是要决定是否批准其使用。 The那个 EPA环保局 found that four substances posed substantial risks to human health but they concluded that the cost savings to growers outweighed the dangers to humans.发现四种物质构成实质性的对人类健康的风险，但他们的结论是，节省的费用，以抵销了种植者的危险，给人类。
These four这四个 pesticides农药 reportedly put thousands of farm workers and their families at risk of serious illness.据报道，把数以千计的农场工人和他们的家人处于危险的严重的疾病。
EPA spokesman Tim Lyons stated that the agency would review the lawsuit and respond in court.环保署发言人Tim里昂指出，该机构将审查诉讼，并作出回应，在法庭上。 However, they did say: “Our mission is to protect不过，他们也说： “我们的使命是为保护 the environment环境 and human health.”与人类健康“ 。
California officials have officially classified one of the pesticides (ethoprop) as a carcinogen.加州官员已正式列为其中的农药（ ethoprop ）作为一个致癌的物质。 The state requires manufacturers to disclose this risk on any product label but cannot outright ban the pesticide because it has the EPA’s approval.国家规定，制造商透露这方面的风险就任何产品标签，但不能彻底禁止农药，因为它环保局的批准。 The suit said the pesticide, which is mainly used on potatoes, sugarcane, and tobacco, has been linked to fish deaths and has also begun to drift from fields into nearby rural communities.起诉书说，农药，这是主要用于马铃薯，甘蔗，烟草，已链接到鱼的死亡和也开始漂移，从领域到附近的农村社区。
Another pesticide (methidathion) has been listed as an air contaminant by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation due to the potential health hazards associated with it.另一种农药（ methidathion ）已被列为一空气污染物由加州署农药规例，由于潜在的对健康的危害与它关联。 This chemical is used on artichokes, oranges, almonds, peaches and olives in California.这个化学是用于artichokes ，橘子，杏仁，桃和橄榄在加利福尼亚州。
The other two pesticides are methamidophos (used mostly on potatoes and cotton) and oxydemeton-methyl (used on broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, corn, cabbage and Brussels sprouts).其他两个农药甲胺磷（主要用于对土豆和棉花）和oxydemeton -甲基（用于对花椰菜，莴苣，花椰菜，玉米，大白菜和布鲁塞尔豆芽） 。 The suit stated that both have been associated with bird deaths.起诉书指出，双方已与鸟类死亡。 Methamidophos has been banned or severely restricted in several countries in recent years.甲胺磷已禁止或严格限制的几个国家在最近几年。 Oxydemeton-methyl is now linked to birth defects. oxydemeton -甲基现在是联系在一起的先天缺陷。
The basis for the lawsuit is the EPA’s own findings about the risks associated with these four pesticides.基础官司是EPA的自己的调研结果，对于相关的风险与这些4种农药。
Federal law allows the agency latitude to approve the continued use of risky pesticides such as these based on offsetting benefits.联邦法律允许该机构纬度批准继续使用的风险，农药等这些基础上，抵销了好处。 The main benefit preventing the EPA ban of these chemicals is, not surprisingly, cost savings.主要受惠防止环保局禁止这些化学品的是，毫不奇怪，节省成本。 However, the EPA has failed to address the specific dangers each pesticide poses to children.然而，环保局却没有解决的具体危险，每个农药造成的儿童。 It has also not taken into adequate account the potential adverse effects on farm workers or to wildlife.它也没有考虑到充分考虑到可能造成的不利影响，农场工人，或野生动物。
The suit is seeking a court order requiring the agency to re-evaluate once again the use of these pesticides.诉讼是寻求法庭命令，要求该机构重新评估，再次使用这些农药。 Plaintiffs in the suit include the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters, Pesticide Action Network North America, Beyond Pesticides and the Natural Resources Defense Council.原告在诉状中包括美国的农场工人， teamsters ，农药行动网络北美，超出农药和自然资源保护委员会。
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