The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee last week approved a bill to clarify the Clean Water Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act to ensure that crop protectants compliant with FIFRA do not require permits under the Clean Water Act.

 

The bill, the Sensible Environmental Protection Act, was introduced by Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Companion legislation in the House, H.R. 897, was passed out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

 

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