Agricultural chemicals

Agricultural chemicals

Includes chemicals designed for agricultural use for protection of crops from fungus and insects, as well as for the growth and protection of plants.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

contaminant

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter that has an adverse effect on air, water, or soil.

contamination

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Introduction into water, air, and soil of microorganisms, chemicals, toxic substances, wastes, or wastewater in a concentration that makes the medium unfit for its next intended ...