Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of Pesticides布什政府提起訴訟，讓除害劑的使用
By通過 Jo Hartley趙哈特利 | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. |環境和農場職工群體，現在提起訴訟，布什政府允許繼續使用4種農藥。 They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.他們宣稱，政府置之不理，自己的證據表明，有毒化學品的工人，兒童和動物。
The suit challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2006 decision to reauthorize the four pesticides used on fruit and vegetable fields in California.訴訟挑戰，環境保護署於2006年決定重新授權了4種農藥使用的水果和蔬菜領域，在加利福尼亞州。
A 1996 federal law required the EPA to reassess the safety of all pesticides used on foods. 1996年的一項聯邦法律，要求環保局重新所有人的安全，農藥使用的食品。 Based on this reassessment,在此基礎上重新評估， the EPA環保局 was to decide whether to approve their use.是要決定是否批准其使用。 The那個 EPA環保局 found that four substances posed substantial risks to human health but they concluded that the cost savings to growers outweighed the dangers to humans.發現四種物質構成實質性的對人類健康的風險，但他們的結論是，節省的費用，以抵銷了種植者的危險，給人類。
These four這四個 pesticides農藥 reportedly put thousands of farm workers and their families at risk of serious illness.據報導，把數以千計的農場工人和他們的家人處於危險的嚴重的疾病。
EPA spokesman Tim Lyons stated that the agency would review the lawsuit and respond in court.環保署發言人Tim里昂指出，該機構將審查訴訟，並作出回應，在法庭上。 However, they did say: “Our mission is to protect不過，他們也說： “我們的使命是為保護 the environment環境 and human health.”與人類健康“ 。
California officials have officially classified one of the pesticides (ethoprop) as a carcinogen.加州官員已正式列為其中的農藥（ ethoprop ）作為一個致癌的物質。 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.國家規定，製造商透露這方面的風險就任何產品標籤，但不能徹底禁止農藥，因為它環保局的批准。 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.起訴書說，農藥，這是主要用於馬鈴薯，甘蔗，煙草，已鏈接到魚的死亡和也開始漂移，從領域到附近的農村社區。
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.另一種農藥（ methidathion ）已被列為一空氣污染物由加州署農藥規例，由於潛在的對健康的危害與它關聯。 This chemical is used on artichokes, oranges, almonds, peaches and olives in California.這個化學是用於artichokes ，橘子，杏仁，桃和橄欖在加利福尼亞州。
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).其他兩個農藥甲胺磷（主要用於對土豆和棉花）和oxydemeton -甲基（用於對花椰菜，萵苣，花椰菜，玉米，大白菜和布魯塞爾豆芽） 。 The suit stated that both have been associated with bird deaths.起訴書指出，雙方已與鳥類死亡。 Methamidophos has been banned or severely restricted in several countries in recent years.甲胺磷已禁止或嚴格限制的幾個國家在最近幾年。 Oxydemeton-methyl is now linked to birth defects. oxydemeton -甲基現在是聯繫在一起的先天缺陷。
The basis for the lawsuit is the EPA’s own findings about the risks associated with these four pesticides.基礎官司是EPA的自己的調研結果，對於相關的風險與這些4種農藥。
Federal law allows the agency latitude to approve the continued use of risky pesticides such as these based on offsetting benefits.聯邦法律允許該機構緯度批准繼續使用的風險，農藥等這些基礎上，抵銷了好處。 The main benefit preventing the EPA ban of these chemicals is, not surprisingly, cost savings.主要受惠防止環保局禁止這些化學品的是，毫不奇怪，節省成本。 However, the EPA has failed to address the specific dangers each pesticide poses to children.然而，環保局卻沒有解決的具體危險，每個農藥造成的兒童。 It has also not taken into adequate account the potential adverse effects on farm workers or to wildlife.它也沒有考慮到充分考慮到可能造成的不利影響，農場工人，或野生動物。
The suit is seeking a court order requiring the agency to re-evaluate once again the use of these pesticides.訴訟是尋求法庭命令，要求該機構重新評估，再次使用這些農藥。 Plaintiffs in the suit include the United Farm Workers, the Teamsters, Pesticide Action Network North America, Beyond Pesticides and the Natural Resources Defense Council.原告在訴狀中包括美國的農場工人， teamsters ，農藥行動網絡北美，超出農藥和自然資源保護委員會。
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