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Administration Drops Rollbacks Of Pesticide Farmworker Protection Rules


February 1, 2019 at 05:43 PM
The Trump administration has dropped planned rollbacks of Obama-era EPA pesticide rules intended to provide farmworkers with similar protections to workers in industries regulated by OSHA, part of a deal with Democratic senators to win confirmation for the Trump administration’s pick to lead EPA’s toxics office.

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