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February 23 2012
EPA targets pesticide outreach programs for budget cuts
While EPA is seeking a small spending boost for its pesticide licensing activities in fiscal 2013 compared to currently enacted levels, one pesticide area the agency is targeting for budget cuts is its outreach activities.
Read Article >>Center for Food Safety invokes Agent Orange to oppose new corn variety
The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Food Safety is invoking the specter of Agent Orange to oppose deregulation of Dow AgroSciences' DAS-40278-9 corn variety, which has been genetically engineered for increased tolerance to broadleaf herbicides, such as 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in the Vietnam-era defoliant.
Read Article >>Dioxin reference dose unchanged in final non-cancer IRIS assessment
Despite protests from the chemical industry, food producers and other stakeholders, EPA's chronic oral reference dose (RfD) for its final non-cancer toxicity assessment of 3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCCD) remained unchanged since the agency first established a proposed RfD in May 2010.
Read Article >>White House accused of shielding biotech industry strategy memo
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, on Friday filed a 33-page legal brief seeking immediate release of documents, including a biotech industry strategy memo, that PEER says reveal White House efforts to push for approval of genetically engineered crops.
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