{"id":251480,"date":"2024-05-22T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/four-ways-the-house-farm-bill-would-weaken-pesticide-protections\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T03:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:52:12","slug":"four-ways-the-house-farm-bill-would-weaken-pesticide-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/four-ways-the-house-farm-bill-would-weaken-pesticide-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways the House Farm Bill Would Weaken Pesticide Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"c-wysiwyg u-clearfix\" data-wysiwyg=\"\">\n<p>The House Agriculture Committee\u2019s draft Farm Bill misses the mark on climate policy, food access, and \u2013 crucially for our dwindling pollinator population \u2013 pesticide protections. For decades, the Farm Bill has contributed to widespread adoption of industrial agriculture, which relies heavily on harmful chemicals that kill pollinators and threaten our health. The latest proposal put forward by the House Agriculture Committee Republican Majority isn\u2019t just missing stronger oversight of pesticide use \u2013 it actively dismantles what\u2019s already in place. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are four things to know about how the House majority\u2019s Farm Bill would, if passed, undermine our ability to protect communities and ecosystems from dangerous pesticides.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It would strip local power to restrict pesticide use. <\/strong>Under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the U.S&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/lucas-rhoads\/four-ways-house-farm-bill-would-weaken-pesticide-protections\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.nrdc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Agriculture Committee\u2019s draft Farm Bill misses the mark on climate policy, food access, and \u2013 crucially for our dwindling pollinator population \u2013 pesticide protections. For decades, the Farm Bill has contributed to widespread adoption of industrial agriculture, which relies heavily on harmful chemicals that kill pollinators and threaten our health. The latest proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":251481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Ways the House Farm Bill Would Weaken Pesticide Protections - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/bio\/lucas-rhoads\/four-ways-house-farm-bill-would-weaken-pesticide-protections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Ways the House Farm Bill Would Weaken Pesticide Protections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House Agriculture Committee\u2019s draft Farm Bill misses the mark on climate policy, food access, and \u2013 crucially for our dwindling pollinator population \u2013 pesticide protections. 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