Facing federal warnings that this summer’s stink bug invasion will be the worst ever, House lawmakers have OK’d a bill demanding that the Agriculture Department make the bug Public Pest No. 1 and speed efforts to kill it.
On Thursday, the House included language in a spending bill that directs Agriculture to prioritize ways to combat stink bugs, poised to wreak disaster in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields later this summer. The stink bug has reached 39 states.
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