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