Pesticide Approval Route Shortened

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{Just another foul under-the-radar scheme from the Maladministration).


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/07/30/pesticide_approval_route_shortened/


The change will allow agency officials to "focus on those ingredients that are of most concern" rather than scrutinizing how hundreds of compounds could affect roughly 1,200 threatened and endangered species across the nation, said Adam Sharp, the associate assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances.

But environmentalists said the change will harm vulnerable plants and animals.

Grant Cope, an associate attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice, said the new rule "is a drastic weakening of protections for all endangered species across the country."

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Ain't the 'godly' Bush great? Now the chemical corps. can

finish poisoning our environment with ease!! Mercury in our water, toxic chemicals over the land, and air you can see, but not breathe!!