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NRDC wins victory to stop EPA and chemical industry from overturning restrictions on a toxic class of pesticides, the EBDCs

November 5, 2008

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

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BASF, carcinogen, dowchemical, dupont, EBDCs, EPA, ETU, hazard, litigation, mancozeb, maneb, metiram, pesticide, risk, toxic

In a great victory for NRDC, public health and worker safety, yesterday the chemical industry capitulated today in their long-running effort to reverse a partial ban on a group of pesticides known as the Ethylene bisdithiocarbamates, or EBDCs for short,...continued

Jennifer Sass
Jennifer Sass
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