{"id":728,"date":"2017-03-31T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:47:32","slug":"epa-denies-petition-to-ban-widely-used-pesticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/2017\/03\/epa-denies-petition-to-ban-widely-used-pesticide\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Denies Petition to Ban Widely Used Pesticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News came from Washington DC this week that the EPA\u00a0<u>declined<\/u>\u00a0to ban the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos. While the potential negative impacts on human health are definitely concerning and should not be ignored, safe use of this chemical with proper timing and appropriate personal protective equipment allows for a very effective insecticide for peach pest management. While the decision to not ban chlorpyrifos may be controversial, for growers who need to continue to manage scale insects and borers, this is good news.<br \/>\n\u200bEPA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-administrator-pruitt-denies-petition-ban-widely-used-pesticide-0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-administrator-pruitt-denies-petition-ban-widely-used-pesticide-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489-300x167.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489-768x426.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489-249x138.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/files\/2017\/03\/pa190489.jpeg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose scale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News came from Washington DC this week that the EPA\u00a0<u>declined<\/u>\u00a0to ban the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/peaches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}