House approves bill seeking to upend EPA pesticide rule
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2017 May 25, 2:20am 2,341 views 4 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2017 Jun 29, 8:33am
Tenpoundbass
2017 Jun 29, 8:33am
And FYI you take out someone poisoning the water but has more money than you so you can't do anything about it.
about 200yds away.
You don't destroy democracy over it.
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HEY YOU
2017 Jun 29, 11:21am
As long as Rep/Con suffer,eliminate all protections for the American people.
Fucking dumbass Rep/Cons around here talk about spraying Glysophate to kill weeds
& there are children all around my neighborhood. Pollute everything! Shit where you eat!
Maybe they are all Republican parents.How will they pay for their children's illnesses?
AHCA! MAGA!
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Zyklon B is a nutrient!
I have a full shaker next to my salt & pepper.
The House on Wednesday passed a Republican-backed measure reversing an Environmental Protection Agency requirement that those spraying pesticides on or near rivers and lakes file for a permit.
The chamber voted largely along party lines to approve the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017. In the preceding floor debate, the bill's supporters said the rule requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act before spraying pesticides is burdensome and duplicative. EPA already regulates pesticide safety under a different law that gives the agency authority to place restrictions on when and where spraying can occur.
The current EPA rule was put in place after a lawsuit was filed by environmentalists and commercial fishermen. They claimed the agency was failing to adequately prevent pesticide contamination in protected waters. A federal appeals court agreed in 2009, forcing EPA to start requiring the permits.
Bill sponsor Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, said the permit requirement places an unnecessary burden on farmers and local health officials fighting mosquito-borne diseases.
The bill "eliminates a duplicative, expensive, unnecessary permitting process that helps free the resources for our states, counties and local governments better to combat the spread of Zika, West Nile virus and other diseases," said Gibbs, a member of the House Agriculture Committee.
Gibbs cited the support of CropLife America, a pesticide-industry trade group that spent $2.4 million on federal lobbying last year. Records show the group also made more than $260,000 in political contributions in 2016, some of it going to House members who spoke Wednesday in support of the bill.
Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the bill, which they derided as political favor to the chemical industry.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said in a floor speech that pesticide-maker Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help support President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities. The company's chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, has been a staunch Trump supporter who now heads a White House working group on aiding manufacturing.
More: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-approves-bill-seeking-upend-epa-pesticide-rule-221147544--politics.html
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