The NYT says it all:
At Meetings, U.S. to Seek Support for Broad Ozone Exemptions
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: November 10, 2003
he two-decade effort to eliminate chemicals that harm the ozone layer faces its most serious test in recent years this week as the Bush administration seeks international support for broad exemptions to a 2005 ban on a popular pesticide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/politics/10OZON.html
And here is the ultimate bullshit:
"Many American farmers say the pesticide, methyl bromide, is vital as they try to compete with farm production in countries where fields are tended by low-paid laborers."
This country subsidizes its agricultural industry to the point where there are no major competitors able to win in our markets. The subsidies exist to the level of excess where farmers are paid to overproduce and then waste excess, unsalable production.
This is just another thinly veiled attack on environmental regulations by the Bush administration, which seems intent on turning the world of tomorrow into the consequences of an environmental holocaust.