Democrats Condition PRIA 'Compromise' On Preserving EPA Pesticide Rules

February 21, 2018
Senate Democrats are offering to drop their months-long hold on a congressional renewal of EPA's authority to collect industry fees to support the agency's pesticide registration process as long as the Trump administration halts plans to scrap Obama-era protections for farmworkers exposed to pesticides and provides a judicially reviewable decision on its reversal of the prior administration's plan to ban use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food. Led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), the senators Feb. 21 offered an amendment...


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