The EPA is sharply focused on completing its reviews of pesticides, including addressing endangered species, to stem the tide of lawsuits and court rulings that increasingly dictate its decisions, a senior agency official said Monday.
“We’re drowning in lawsuits,” Michal Ilana Freedhoff, assistant EPA administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention, told state pesticide officials.
“It’s no secret. We haven’t been meeting our [Endangered Species Act] responsibilities and we’ve been sued a lot,” Freedhoff said at the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials Inc.'s annual meeting. “We are spending our money and our time defending ourselves, and the courts are ...
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A Southwest Florida farmer has reached a plea deal related to his role in a larger federal fraud conspiracy. Mark Frisbie pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement in a federal crop-i...