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Which state you live in matters for how well environmental laws protect your health

  • Written by Susan Kaplan, Research Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
imagePesticide use on school playing fields varies from state to state. matimix/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Your child could go to gym class on Monday morning and play soccer on a field that was sprayed over the weekend with 2,4-D, a toxic weedkiller that has been investigated as possibly causing cancer. Alternatively, the school grounds may have been...

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