Regulators to Let Maker Test Chemical Levels

[UpInArms]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa1nov01,1,1139738.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture announced an unprecedented plan Friday to entrust testing for water pollution from atrazine, one of the most heavily used weedkillers in the country, to the chemical's manufacturer.

The EPA called the plan for monitoring by Syngenta Crop Protection "an innovative protective approach." Syngenta, based in Greensboro, N.C., is a subsidiary of the Swiss agribusiness Syngenta.

Erik Olson, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Washington-based environmental lobby, condemned the arrangement. "Instead of requiring a polluter to stop polluting, EPA is cutting a deal with the corporation to let them off the hook," he said. The new monitoring agreement was struck without consulting environmentalists, he said.

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:anger:

I am exhausted by the continued assault against our country by this entire mal-administration.

[LittleApple81]

1. Our water supply is very contaminated with atrazine. But nobody

talks about it. This is a crime against humanity, like all of the other Bush policies.

[Melsky]

2. This is a moral outrage

just one drop in the bucket of outrage. Sometimes I think I can't stand much more of this.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. Yogi Bear, Secretary of Pick-a-nick Baskets

James Watt was the model for the new world order.

[enough]

4. Kick (nt)

.

[mmm]

5. It is damn tiring, is it not?

Where are the Dems we elected to represent us?
How can this be allowed to happen, day in and day out?!
Still, we must keep watching. We must keep track.
All of these wrongs must be undone.