Robbins: Brave new world

Robbins: Brave new world

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Pesticides, the ESA and a brave new world

It’s been a while since I wrote about the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and pesticides. If this is the first time you’ve encountered this issue, when a federal government agency (like the Environmental Protection Agency) takes an action (like registering a pesticide) on a product that could harm or kill a threatened or endangered species, that action must be reviewed by either the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or the National Marine Fisher…