CRE Reports That NRDC Warns EPA Not to Jeopardize Its Reduced Risk Program for Pesticides.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 CRE CRE Commercial Real Estate CRE Corporate Real Estate CRE Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland) CRE CCD (Charge Coupled Device) and Readout Electronics CRE Camp Response Element is reporting that the Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1. (NRDC NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC National Research and Development Centre (Institute of Education, London) NRDC National Realty & Development Corp. ) has informed EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. that failure to cancel an old pesticide in lieu of a new, more effective pesticide will seriously undermine EPA's reduced risk initiative program. The pesticide in question is metolachlor. The manufacturer of the pesticide, Syngenta, states that millions of pounds of the pesticide will no longer be used if its old pesticide is canceled and its new pesticide S-metolachlor is allowed to go on the market. S-metolachlor is as effective as metolachlor at a significantly reduced application rate. A potential manufacturer of the old pesticide, Cedar Chemical Corporation, opposes the cancellation. Additional information on this issue is available on the homepage of the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) is a lobby group in the United States which focuses on federal agency compliance with "good government" laws which regulate the regulators. (CRE) website (www.TheCRE.com), including NRDC's letter to EPA, Cedar Chemical's letter to CRE, and information on CRE Regulatory Services. |
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