Washington, Sept. 30 -- Congresswoman Nancy Mace issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01) introduced the Pesticide Data Transparency Act, legislation which removes a legal barrier keeping the most dangerous category of pesticide use from public view.
Companies applying restricted-use pesticides (RUP) are required to track their use, in recognition RUPs are the most toxic and dangerous chemicals available on the general market. Under current law, certain provisions under Section 1491 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 have been interpreted to prevent public disclosure of existing RUP usage data if it would directly or indirectly reveal the identity of individual producers. The P...