Activists urge Cuomo to sign pesticide ban in New York

With California this month agreeing to ban its sale, environmentalists in New York are renewing their call for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would eliminate the agricultural use of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide that came into heavy use after DDT was banned in the 1970s.Under the Trump Administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has resisted calls for a ban even though it's been disallowed for household use since 2000. That has sparked a lawsuit from Attorney General Letiti