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State Regulators Oppose Worker Protection Standard's Pesticide Application 'Exclusion Zone'


December 15, 2015 at 04:18 PM
State regulators are raising Administrative Procedure Act (APA) concerns about a provision of the Environmental Protection Agency's recently finalized worker protection standards (WPS), arguing a restriction on pesticide spraying that extends the rule beyond farmers' fields was not proposed for public comment and imposes unreasonable burdens on growers.

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