Mr Oliver writes...
I'm in agreement with Jim that the EPA could make huge strides with minimal
effort by simply forcing all the State Lead Agencies to actually enforce
existing pesticide laws and label language.  Or even better yet, to force
*all* states to follow California's model of documenting every pesticide
application with a Pesticide Use Report (which I need to fill out for every
treatment with Apiguard, MAQS, or Hopguard).

my comments..
the use of the words easy and force in the same sentence at least here would be a problem.  add 'this is how it is done in California' and you might have riot form pretty quickly.   here you would need to be a bit more nuanced in how to make this work and I suspect this one way fix for all places would prove to be a problem.  certainly there are lots of laws related to beekeeping and honey that are not enforced here in Texas and we are definitely in a NO REGULATION kind of place.  the real problem here as far as I can tell is paying for the enforcement folks to actually enforce the law and as most here know a law not enforce is a law that may as well not be on the books.

mind you I don't disagree with either Mr Oliver's or Mr Fishers larger message or conclusion but am trying to throw light on how folks in different locations may not look at this issue in the same manner.

   

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