EPA may override state pesticide regulations, including stricter dicamba weed killer rules
Story Date: 3/29/2019

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 3/28/19


A farmer shows the damage caused by dicamba drift, resulting in "cupped" leaves on affected crops State regulators are worried that the Environmental Protection Agency is getting ready to override them on a host of pesticide regulations by negating stricter rules intended to curb crop damage or prevent environmental hazards from pesticides. The EPA quietly announced….that it was considering a new way to handle requests by states that want to impose stricter rules or extra training than the federal government mandates on pesticides.

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