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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Cultures and stocks

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Infectious agents and associated biologicals including cultures from medical and pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories; waste ...

Cumulative ecological risk assessment

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Consideration of the total ecological risk from multiple stressors to a given eco-zone.

Constituent(s) of concern

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Specific chemicals that are identified for evaluation in the site assessment process

Construction and demolition waste

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Waste building materials, dredging materials, tree stumps, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of homes, commercial buildings and other structures and ...

Construction ban

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

If, under the Clean Air Act, EPA disapproves an area's planning requirements for correcting nonattainment, EPA can ban the construction or modification of any major stationary source of the pollutant ...

Consumptive water use

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Water removed from available supplies without return to a water resources system, e.g. water used in manufacturing, agriculture, and food preparation.

Contact pesticide

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A chemical that kills pests when it touches them, instead of by ingestion. Also, soil that contains the minute skeletons of certain algae that scratch and dehydrate waxy-coated insects.