Source: Jeremy P. Jacobs, E AND E, 10/5/11

With a critical deadline approaching at the end of the month, negotiations appear to have stalled between two powerful Senate committees over a bipartisan House-passed bill to avoid a new pesticide permitting program.

At issue is H.R. 872, legislation that would undo a 2009 federal appeals court ruling in National Cotton Council v. EPA that requires U.S. EPA to issue new permits to pesticide users who spray over water.

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