In the late 1960s and early 1970s research came forward that pesticides were harming fish, birds, and man, and a growing concern for pollution. Pesticides were previously controlled solely for consumers and farmers under the 1947 the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The Long Island Spray Trial that went through a number of phases in order to end the spraying of DDT and Kerosene oil to eradicate moths in the northeast United States, gained national interest when it made it to the supreme court. The DDT and Kerosene fight was lost in Supreme Court but it gained public attention because of the mootness of the case and having the President’s son as a plaintiff, Archibald b. Roosevelt. Aerial spraying over the state did have
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The pesticide control act on 1972 was introduced to the House of Representatives on Sept. 16 1971. They define protection of health and environment as control over any “substantial adverse effects on environmental value while taking into account the public interest, including benefits from the use of the pesticide.” William Poage introduced the bill and it was reported to the agriculture committee in the house, which Representative Poage was Chairman of. The committee searched for a balance that was beneficial to the agriculture industry as well as consumers. They commented on the public health benefit of pesticides eradicating pest driven diseases, as well as the efficiency it produces. The committee changed the language in the bill, the benefit risk concept in the bill, removed the “use by permit” category, and over all enabled the EPA and the state to regulate overuse and misuse of …show more content…
Poage, who introduced the bill to the House of Representatives, was a democrat from Texas and the chairman of the Committee on agriculture. He focused on helping rural farmers from his district. He thought the bill is a good compromise between regulation and allowing farmers fair usage. The House bill he introduced and the committee regulations he was chairman for lean towards less strict use for pesticides, and taking into account the importance of these industries. He had clear political goals that favor agriculturists opposed to strict regulations. Agriculture lobbyists, farmers, and the Nixon administration wanted the bill to control pesticides by giving out permits to users. Agriculturists lobby for farmers claimed it would be too big of a burden for them to produce crops with limited use of pesticides. EPA and the EPA congressional affairs director Howard A Cohen thought the new amendments were a reasonable advancement. Howard A. Cohen thinks the EPA should “under no circumstances attack the pesticide bill as being to weak” because they don’t want to cause problems for the president in farm states. Howard A. Cohen was fired from his position with the EPA shortly after that statement. Senator Allen Ellender served as the chairman of agriculture and Forestry for the Senate and also thought pesticide use is needed for agriculture and in turn national security. He was a democrat from Louisiana and was concerned with the reduction in the cost of producing
The pesticide control act on 1972 was introduced to the House of Representatives on Sept. 16 1971. They define protection of health and environment as control over any “substantial adverse effects on environmental value while taking into account the public interest, including benefits from the use of the pesticide.” William Poage introduced the bill and it was reported to the agriculture committee in the house, which Representative Poage was Chairman of. The committee searched for a balance that was beneficial to the agriculture industry as well as consumers. They commented on the public health benefit of pesticides eradicating pest driven diseases, as well as the efficiency it produces. The committee changed the language in the bill, the benefit risk concept in the bill, removed the “use by permit” category, and over all enabled the EPA and the state to regulate overuse and misuse of …show more content…
Poage, who introduced the bill to the House of Representatives, was a democrat from Texas and the chairman of the Committee on agriculture. He focused on helping rural farmers from his district. He thought the bill is a good compromise between regulation and allowing farmers fair usage. The House bill he introduced and the committee regulations he was chairman for lean towards less strict use for pesticides, and taking into account the importance of these industries. He had clear political goals that favor agriculturists opposed to strict regulations. Agriculture lobbyists, farmers, and the Nixon administration wanted the bill to control pesticides by giving out permits to users. Agriculturists lobby for farmers claimed it would be too big of a burden for them to produce crops with limited use of pesticides. EPA and the EPA congressional affairs director Howard A Cohen thought the new amendments were a reasonable advancement. Howard A. Cohen thinks the EPA should “under no circumstances attack the pesticide bill as being to weak” because they don’t want to cause problems for the president in farm states. Howard A. Cohen was fired from his position with the EPA shortly after that statement. Senator Allen Ellender served as the chairman of agriculture and Forestry for the Senate and also thought pesticide use is needed for agriculture and in turn national security. He was a democrat from Louisiana and was concerned with the reduction in the cost of producing