Farmworkers Seek To Preserve Obama-Era Pesticide Protections

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May 1, 2019 at 04:52 PM
Farmworker advocates are pressing the Trump administration to preserve a provision of the Obama-era rule updating EPA’s farmworker protection standards (WPS) that limits pesticide spraying when bystanders are present, arguing the application exclusion zone (AEZ) is needed to protect nearby workers and bystanders.