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MDAC: Businesses ‘overwhelmingly support’ online pesticide registration

MBJ Staff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:22:50 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) introduced the Pesticide Products Registration Online System in 2011 to overwhelming support from businesses nationwide, according to MDAC. In its first year of operation as a pilot system, over 80 percent of businesses took advantage of the online application as a way to register pesticides [...]

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Several Delta waters removed from fish advisory

MBJ Staff — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:59:42 +0000

MISSISSIPPI DELTA — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) are removing several waters from the 2001 Delta Regional Fish Advisory. The agencies, in conjunction with the Mississippi Fish Advisory Task Force, have determined through fish tissue data analysis that people can now consume all species of [...]

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Senate committee passes pesticides legislation

For the MBJ — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:27:48 +0000

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee approved the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act (HR.872). The bill looks to stop the federal government from requiring “new and redundant regulations: on pesticides, among them the insecticides used to control mosquitoes. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) was among the members who voted for the bill. HR.872 [...]

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Senators want pesticides regulation overturned

For the MBJ — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:44:51 +0000

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has announced his support for prompt Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee consideration of House-passed legislation to overturn a new level of regulatory burdens on the use of pesticides. Cochran and all Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have signed a letter to chairman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) that [...]

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Cochran looking to kill new pesticides regulations

For the MBJ — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:02:03 +0000

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is co-sponsoring legislation to eliminate new and redundant federal regulatory requirements on the application of some pesticides, including those used by communities to control mosquitoes. The legislation (S.718) would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using the Clean Water Act to require a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination [...]

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Inspectors watching pesticide applications

Wally Northway — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:07:19 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce is urging farmers to practice extreme caution when making pesticide applications this spring when especially high winds increase the chance of pesticide drift. Applicators are reminded to pay close attention to wind speed, direction, and the distance to neighboring crops and other sensitive areas before [...]

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