New EPA Rules on Farmers Are Costly, Over-Protective

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Channel: Farm Monitor · 2011 · News & Politics

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New EPA rules are clamping down this year on farmers and farm workers who apply soil fumigants at planting time.  The Monitor's Rick Treptow reports it will be costly and will actually over-protect workers.

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