The Environmental Protection Agency plans to conduct a new study about the potential health risks of the herbicide atrazine, according to the New York Times.
For years, the EPA has decided against acting on calls to ban the chemical, which is manufactured by Syngenta, from environmental activists and some scientists who argued that runoff was polluting ecosystems and harming animals.
More recently, new studies have suggested that atrazine in drinking water is associated with birth defects, low birth weights and reproductive problems among humans, even at concentrations that meet current federal standards.
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