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To spray or not to spray
- The Boston Globe (new window)
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8/16/2007 |
| THE MASSACHUSETTS Highway Department has gone back and forth on whether to use herbicides to control roadside vegetation. It sprayed them in the 1990s, stopped until 2003, and then resumed using them that year. It should go on the wagon again. | |
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A dozen lawmakers join fight against herbicides
- The Boston Globe (new window)
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8/15/2007 |
| WORCESTER -- A dozen lawmakers have allied themselves with a coalition of environmental groups to protest the use of herbicides to control vegetation along state roadways. The group argues that the toxic herbicides, which the state began using in 2003, run off into surface and ground water, polluting drinking water and posing a health risk to humans and the environment. The group is asking the state to use organic herbicides or manual means, such as weedwackers or lawnmowers. | |
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