Environmentalists win battle over pesticide spraying near water

Conservationists applauded the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to move ahead with implementing the Clean Water Act after a court battle over a Bush administration rule that exempted pesticide spraying around waterways. In January, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an EPA decision that spraying pesticides near waterways shouldn't be regulated by the Clean Water Act. The court ruled that pesticides constituted pollutants under federal law and had to be regulated to protect human health and the environment...The Oregonian