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.

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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.

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. ...

exclusionary ordinance

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Zoning that excludes classes of persons or businesses from a particular neighborhood or area.

exempt solvent

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Specific organic compounds not subject to requirements of regulation because they are deemed by EPA to be of negligible photochemical reactivity.

exempted aquifer

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Underground bodies of water defined in the Underground Injection Control program as aquifers that are potential sources of drinking water though not being used as such, and thus exempted from ...