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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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Agricultural chemicals > Pesticides 
municipal solid waste
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
Common garbage or trash generated by industries, businesses, institutions, and homes.
mutagen/mutagenicity
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
An agent that causes a permanent genetic change in a cell other than that which occurs during normal growth. Mutagenicity is the capacity of a chemical or physical agent to cause ...
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
Standards established by EPA that apply for outdoor air throughout the country. (See: criteria pollutants, state implementation plans, emissions trading.)
National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS)
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
Emissions standards set by EPA for an air pollutant not covered by NAAQS that may cause an increase in fatalities or in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness. Primary ...
national environmental performance partnership agreements
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
System that allows states to assume greater responsibility for environmental programs based on their relative ability to execute them.
national estuary program
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
A program established under the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1987 to develop and implement conservation and management plans for protecting estuaries and restoring and ...
national municipal plan
Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides
A policy created in 1984 by EPA and the states in 1984 to bring all publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) into compliance with Clean Water Act requirements.
Sub-categories
- Fungicides (58)
- Herbicides (125)
- Insecticides (20)
- Nitrogen fertilizers (16)
- Organic fertilizers (43)
- Pesticides (35135)
- Potassium fertilizers (300)
- Urea (21)