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A spectrum of organized environmental groups is attempting to stop the use pesticides that are vital to rights-of-way maintenance. Managers must supplement their scientific training with an understanding of social and political dynamics in order to preserve chemical programs. Affluence and occupational shift to the service sector are among the primary forces that gave rise to the environmental movement of the 1960s and shaped new laws and regulations. Five types of antipesticide groups are discussed, and differences in their internal dynamics and tactics are examined. The campaign to ban 2, 4, 5-T is a typical case that shows how antipesticide groups use sympathetic media coverage and political pressure on government agencies to obtain their purposes. The development of this campaign is outlined by using expert witness testimony at Administrative Law Hearings of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to show how pressure tactics appear to have changed EPA policy from its original position that scientific opinion found no causal link between 2, 4, 5-T forestry spraying and miscarriages near Alsea, Oregon, to the position that statistical data showed a danger sufficient to ban 2, 4, 5-T for certain uses. (Author)

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Environmental protection; Pesticides; Politics; Public opinion; Regulations; Social factors

Restrictions; Right of way

Design; Environment; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

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Jan 31 1983 12:00AM

• FERTILIZATION AND LEGUME ESTABLISHMENT ON HIGHWAY SLOPES
• HOW RESEARCH BENEFITS CALIFORNIA'S ROADSIDES (ABRIDGMENT)
• MONITORING WILDLIFE POPULATIONS AND ACTIVITY ALONG I-95 IN NORTHERN MAINE BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER CONSTRUCTION
• MULE DEER BEHAVIOR IN RELATION TO FENCING AND UNDERPASSES ON INTERSTATE 80 IN WYOMING
• NYLON EROSION-CONTROL MAT (ABRIDGMENT)
• OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SAFETY REST AREAS (ABRIDGMENT)
• REPORT FROM COMMITTEE ON ROADSIDE MAINTENANCE