banned pesticide News

A Vermont couple who reached a $450,000 settlement with the state after saying their home was made uninhabitable when it was sprayed for bedbugs with a banned pesticide is now suing their insurance company. Neil and Patricia Whitney of Rutland …

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture says six Rutland households have had to relocate after an exterminator used a banned pesticide to get rid of bedbugs. Cary Giguere says the chemical, Chlorpyrifos, can cause nervous system and developmental disorders. It has …