Speaker Bio: Steve Dwinell has more than 30 years of experience in agricultural and environmental policy, with a background in pesticide and pest-control regulation and agricultural water policy at both state and national levels. He has also worked internationally as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and as a member of a United Nations Environment Programme advisory group. After retiring from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, he conducted quality-assurance audits for the Rollins family of pest-control brands. Steve now serves as Director of the Division of Public Health and Agricultural Resource Management at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.
Description: An overview of the USEPA strategies for protecting threatened and endangered species from pesticides announced in 2022 and being implemented through addition of requirements for runoff mitigation and drift buffer to pesticide labels. The talk will discuss the components of the EPA strategies, what the new requirements are, how applicators can comply with these requirements, and which pesticides registered in Vermont have these additional requirements.