May 26, 2015 at 01:33 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening guidance and training for its regional staff in overseeing state enforcement of federal pesticide rules including the agency's farm worker protection standards (WPS) following an Inspector General (IG) report faulting inadequate oversight, though the agency disagrees with the IG that it is not holding states accountable.
“We acknowledge that consistency across EPA regions and project officers can be improved,” EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) says in a March 23 letter responding to a pre-publication draft o