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Commission asks staff to press Bell Labs and EPA to widen access to dry-ice rodent control
Summary
The commission voted to authorize staff to draft letters to Bell Laboratories asking them to distribute a registered dry-ice product ('Rat Ice') on the West Coast and to the U.S. EPA to consider a variance permitting dry ice as a rodent control method, citing wildlife-safety and lower secondary toxicity risks compared with rodenticides.
The Commission on the Environment authorized staff to draft and send two letters: one to Bell Laboratories urging wider West Coast distribution of its registered dry-ice rodent control product (marketed as "Rat Ice") and one to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requesting consideration of a variance or other pathway to allow dry ice (carbon dioxide) to be used as a less-toxic rodent-control tool in appropriate settings.
Chris Geiger summarized the history: dry ice was…
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