Activists Urge EPA To Reject Industry Bid For Novel Review Of Pesticide Ban

摘要

Environmentalists are urging EPA to reject a request from Dow AgroScience to launch a formal pesticide registration cancellation hearing for a fluoride pesticide for which EPA is proposing a revocation of its existing food safety limits, citing broad agency discretion for selecting whether such an action should be orchestrated under food safety or pesticide laws. "Simply stated, the Administrator has abundant discretion to determine what law is applicable and whether it is practicable to coordinate that law with [pesticide law] cancellation proceedings," environmentalists say in a recent letter to the agency. "Further, to the extent she determines such practicability is present, she also possesses the discretion to decide precisely how such coordination should take place." The letter is available on InsideEPA.com. Seepage 2 for details.