EPA Preparing Guidance To Help Address States' Uncertainty Over WPS

EPA is preparing guidance to help address states' uncertainty over whether and how to enforce the Obama-era rule strengthening the agency's farmworker protection standards (WPS) given Trump administration commitments to enforce the measure even as officials take steps to delay compliance with, and potentially revise, the regulation. At a Sept. 18 meeting of the State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) in Washington, D.C., EPA's Jackie Mosby, director of the pesticide office's Field and External Affairs Division, said the...