Environment

KAW comments to EPA on use of gentamicin as a pesticide

Comments submitted to EPA to urge the agency to deny the request from the Michigan Department of Agriculture for a specific exemption to use the pesticide gentamicin to control streptomycin-resistance fire blight. (Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0234).

Statement by the NAMA Group of Developing Countries, February 2006

Statement by a new coalition of developing countries in the NAMA negotiations, known as the NAMA-11. The group states that developing countries need flexibility to ensure sufficient space for industrial development, that there must be a balanced outcome between the agriculture and NAMA negotiations, and that specific development concerns of developing countries will need to be addressed.