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Senate Backs Compromise PRIA Package Preserving Obama Pesticide Rules


June 29, 2018 at 05:08 PM
The Senate has unanimously approved compromise legislation that would reauthorize EPA's authority to collect industry fees to support timely pesticide reviews, in exchange for preserving for three years two Obama-era rules aimed at protecting farmworkers from exposure to pesticides that the Trump administration had moved to roll back.

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