March 24, 2015 at 07:02 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) is calling for the agency to strengthen proposed revisions to its worker protection standards (WPS) to better protect farmworkers, especially pesticide handlers, urging stronger requirements and backing advocates' claim that farmworkers face disproportionate chemical risks -- pressure on the Obama administration that comes amid a broad review at OSHA of chemical exposure risk policies.