Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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Ethylene Dibromide (EDB)

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A chemical used as an agricultural fumigant and in certain industrial processes. Extremely toxic and found to be a carcinogen in laboratory animals, EDB has been banned for most agricultural uses in ...

Eutrophic lakes

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Shallow, murky bodies of water with concentrations of plant nutrients causing excessive production of algae. (See: dystrophic lakes.)

Eutrophication

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The slow ageing process during which a lake, estuary, or bay evolves into a bog or marsh and eventually disappears. During the later stages of eutrophication the water body is choked by abundant ...

Evapotranspiration

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The loss of water from the soil both by evaporation and by transpiration from the plants growing in the soil.

Exceedance

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Violation of the pollutant levels permitted by environmental protection standards.

Exclusion

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

In the asbestos program, one of several situations that permit a Local Education Agency (LEA) to delete one or more of the items required by the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA); e.g. ...