Parks and Recreation Industry News
The Pesticide Wars
From High Country News
By Felice Pace, High Country News, Guest Writer, 11-24-09
If the American Farm Bureau Federation has its way, the issue of whether herbicide spraying over water requires a Clean Water Act permit will be heard by the Supreme Court. A coalition of agricultural groups led by the Federation has petitioned the nation’s highest court to reverse an appellate court decision which found that such spraying requires an NPDES clean water permit. NPDES permits are required when pollution is delivered to a water body from a point source. What constitutes a point source for Clean Water Act purposes has been a major US legal issue for well over a decade with several previous cases reaching the Supreme Court.
More ... http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_pesticide_wars/C559/L559/
By Felice Pace, High Country News, Guest Writer, 11-24-09
If the American Farm Bureau Federation has its way, the issue of whether herbicide spraying over water requires a Clean Water Act permit will be heard by the Supreme Court. A coalition of agricultural groups led by the Federation has petitioned the nation’s highest court to reverse an appellate court decision which found that such spraying requires an NPDES clean water permit. NPDES permits are required when pollution is delivered to a water body from a point source. What constitutes a point source for Clean Water Act purposes has been a major US legal issue for well over a decade with several previous cases reaching the Supreme Court.
More ... http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_pesticide_wars/C559/L559/
We Support
Log In
Credits
Sponsors
RSS Feeds In
- Ohio State & Major League Soccer
- REGISTER NOW for the OTF Regional Seminar
- Former Student Starts Chilean Research Facility
- Nicklaus and Sorenstam team up on bid to design Olympic golf course
- Notebook: PGA Tour might mandate that stars play more events
- Woods to defend title at Australian Masters, last win before scandal