RE: Efforts to Increase Public Access to Pesticide Information and Participation
- Archived: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:13:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:45:39 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Fred Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Subject: RE: Efforts to Increase Public Access to Pesticide Information and Participation
- X-topic: Information
What can the EPA do to stop my neighbor from using lawn chemicals on his yard? It pollutes my yard, my pets, my family, and me.
What can the EPA do to stop all the people in the Conesus Lake basin from using lawn chemicals on their yards? They are contributing to the fertilization of the lake and may be harmful to some of the aquatic life as well.
The manufacturers of the lawn chemicals have to abide some pretty strict rules and regs in order to opperate. The residential users of those same chemicals are not subject to regulatory requirements. Pesticide applicators have rules and regs to which they are supposed to abide. THE EPA has little or no effect at this level, and the state agencies are busy doing other things.
Fred Stoss
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