House lawmakers are confident they will succeed in this Congress in overturning an eight-year-old court decision that restricts pesticide use over bodies of water after previous attempts floundered in the Senate.
Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) introduced H.R. 953 on Feb. 7 to reverse a 2009 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruling that mandated the Environmental Protection Agency to require water pollution permits for pesticide applicators spraying over or near waterways. Applicators are already regulated under the national pesticide law, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (Pub. L. No. 61-152), and the ...
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