ENVIRONMENTALISM, PESTICIDE USE, AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY (ABRIDGMENT)

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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• Authors:
  • Arnold, Ron
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 24-28
• Monograph Title: Roadside management
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 859
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental protection; Pesticides; Politics; Public opinion; Regulations; Social factors
• Uncontrolled Terms: Restrictions; Right of way
• Old TRIS Terms: Media
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00368915
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309033624
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 31 1983 12:00AM