Five facilities near schools and houses in LA County fumigate produce shipped from overseas with methyl bromide. But the air agency doesn’t plan to monitor the air or take any immediate steps to protect people from the gas, which can damage lungs and cause neurological effects.
“It is a recognized ozone-depleting chemical… The compound was used extensively as a pesticide until being phased out by most countries in the early 2000s.”
“The Montreal Protocol stipulates that bromomethane use be phased out.”
I guess everyone is phasing it out except the US? Figures.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromomethane