Kyla Bennett

Cognoscenti contributor

Kyla Bennett is New England director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and also PEER’s director of science policy. She is a scientist and lawyer formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency, and she first became involved with PEER in the mid 1990s, when she was a whistleblower herself.

Recently published

A crew from the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project spray to control mosquitos from a pick-up truck on July 8, 2020, while driving through a neighborhood in Burlington, Mass. Officials are preparing for another summer with a high number of cases of eastern equine encephalitis. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Should We Stop Spraying For Mosquitos During The Pandemic?

We should question using pesticides that may compromise the human respiratory system during the pandemic, writes Kyla Bennett. In the long term, we should shift to prevention.

Cognoscenti

Oct 7, 2020