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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Gross power-generation potential

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The installed power generation capacity that landfill gas can support.

Ground Water Under the Direct Influence (UDI) of Surface Water

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Any water beneath the surface of the ground with: 1. significant occurence of insects or other microorganisms, algae, or large-diameter pathogens; 2. significant and relatively rapid shifts in water ...

Ground-penetrating radar

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A geophysical method that uses high frequency electromagnetic waves to obtain subsurface information.

Ground-water discharge

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Ground water entering near coastal waters which has been contaminated by landfill leachate, deep well injection of hazardous wastes, septic tanks, etc.

Ground-water disinfection rule

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A 1996 amendment of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring EPA to promulgate national primary drinking water regulations requiring disinfection as for all public water systems, including surface ...

Fumigant

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A pesticide vaporised to kill pests. Used in buildings and greenhouses.

Functional equivalent

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Term used to describe EPA's decision-making process and its relationship to the environmental review conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). A review is considered functionally ...