Bush administration to allow continued use of ozone-depleting pesticide
WASHINGTON The Bush administration is allowing farmers to use an ozone-depleting pesticide that was supposed to be phased out next year. Methyl bromide is a popular killer of insects and weeds. And the U-S was among a dozen nations that won exemptions last month allowing them to continue using it.
Under new guidelines, the U-S can use a little more than 55 hundred tons of the chemical. That's a little more than a third of what the country used in 1991.
Still, environmentalists say that's more than the country needs. An official with the Natural Resources Defense Council accuses the White House of, quoting here, "catering to a handful of big chemical and agribusiness interests."
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