EPA, IG Spar Over Push For Tracking Farmworkers' Pesticide Exposures

EPA toxics officials are pushing back on a call from the agency's Inspector General (IG) to craft a methodology for tracking farmworkers' exposures to pesticides in order to assess recent revisions of the agency's farmworker protection standards (WPS), with officials saying the agency lacks clear statutory authority for such a methodology. In a Feb. 15 report , “EPA Needs to Evaluate the Impact of the Revised Agricultural Worker Protection Standard on Pesticide Exposure Incidents,” the IG argues that the agency's...