Pesticides Drift Rule Under Review by Incoming Biden Administration

An EPA rule that shrinks pesticide spray exclusion zones, potentially exposing farm workers to greater amounts of chemical drift, will be up for review by the incoming Joe Biden administration, according to a statement it issued just ahead of the new president’s inauguration.

Promulgated by the outgoing Trump administration, the pesticide drift rule is one of dozens of agency actions that will be reviewed under a coming Executive Order titled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.”

In December, U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Limanin the Southern District of New York ...