EPA, Enviros Disagree On Pesticide Reassessment

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        Subject:     EPA, Enviros Disagree On Pesticide Reassessment
            Date:     Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:59:24 -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:    "Brian J. Foster" <bfoster@swlaw.com>
cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

EPA, ENVIROS DISAGREE ON PESTICIDE REASSESSMENT

By Cat Lazaroff

WASHINGTON, DC, August 5, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed on Friday that it has met a Congressionally mandated deadline to reassess the safety of pesticides. But the Natural Resources Defense Council, which sued the agency over its pesticide reviews and won a settlement setting a new deadline for reevaluating the chemicals, says the EPA has failed to act on the most toxic and highest priority pesticides.

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