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Petition seeks ESA transparency

Posted by: Maven on January 21, 2010 at 2:15 pm

From the Western Farm Press:

“Dow AgroSciences and two other crop protection product manufacturers – Makhteshim-Agan of North America and Cheminova – have filed a petition calling on EPA to adopt transparent procedures allowing public notice and comment on Endangered Species Act decisions. The petition asks EPA to notify the public and solicit stakeholder input instead of seeking to amend pesticide labels unilaterally. If EPA were to put its current approach into effect, users would be directed by the amended labels to follow new, local restrictions on pest control products in bulletins that the agency is preparing to post on the Internet.

The petition is prompted by the essentially ad hoc process that EPA is currently using to impose label amendments and county-specific restrictions related to salmon in key agricultural and timber production areas of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. While EPA’s immediate actions concern only chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion, the process now being used by the agency will set a precedent for establishing similar restrictions on hundreds of products in the Western U.S. over the next few years. It will also likely set a precedent for future EPA restrictions addressing hundreds of threatened and endangered species across the U.S. … “

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January 21, 2010 · Filed Under Water Quality

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