EPA Plan To Scrap Pesticide Rules Threatens Alliance Seeking Funding Bill

Farmworker representatives are threatening to pull out of a long-standing coalition with industry that helps secure federal funds for streamlined EPA pesticide registrations if the Trump administration follows through on plans to scrap agency pesticide programs and scale back Obama-era rules for reducing farmworkers' exposures to pesticides. Since 2003, environmental and farmworker advocates have participated in a Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA) coalition with the pesticide industry supporting legislation that allows industry fees to fund EPA pesticide reviews. PRIA brings...