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AFBF Concerned New EPA Rule More About Regulation than Safety
Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:24:44 CDT
The American Farm Bureau Federation is reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency's final revisions to the Worker Protection Standard, in hopes that the agency veered to a science-based approach in guarding against risk.
Farmers and ranchers are committed to the safe and effective use of all crop protection tools. And Farm Bureau agrees that chemicals should be handled with care, whether to protect a small home garden or rows of crops on commercial farmland.
"Farm Bureau shares the agency's desire to protect workers, but we are concerned that the agency is piling regulatory costs on farmers and ranchers that bear little if any relation to actual safety issues," said Paul Schlegel, director of environment and energy policy for AFBF.
AFBF filed extensive comments on the proposal more than a year ago. Then, as now, AFBF said EPA itself could not justify the regulation it was proposing.
"We are hopeful the agency's final rule will reflect our concerns and protect farmers' and ranchers' ability to promote a safe, productive environment," Schlegel said.
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