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Subject:  EPA ENDS CLEAN AIR EXEMPTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE
Date:    Thu, 16 May 2002 09:26:41   -0400
From:      Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

EPA ENDS CLEAN AIR EXEMPTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

By Cat Lazaroff

WASHINGTON, DC, May 15, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, facing a lawsuit over a Clean Air Act loophole that let California farms emit thousands of tons of air pollutants without reprisals, agreed Tuesday to monitor and restrict farm emissions. The settlement will help clean up the air over the nation's leading agricultural state, which is home to some of the most polluted air basins in the nation.

For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002L-05-15-06.html

Well Mr. Helliker, Now will you allow the use of safe and far more effective (unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems?

Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten

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