EPA Weighing Shorter Pesticide Review Schedule Due To Climate Change

摘要

EPA officials say the consequences of climate change - such as rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns - may require the agency to conduct periodic reviews of pesticides more frequently than the 15-year timeframes currently required by law. The question of whether to modify its review schedule was one of several questions EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) put to its pesticides Science Advisory Panel (SAP), which met Dec. 7 to consider the effects of climate change on an array of research and regulatory activities.