Western Governors urge the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) not to remove the domestic quarantine for the plant pest emerald ash borer. In comments submitted to APHIS Administrator Kevin Shea on Nov. 19, 2018 in response to the agency’s proposed rule (83 Fed. Reg. 182), Western Governors assert “the proposed rule to remove the domestic quarantine would potentially result in emerald ash borer’s unchecked migration and irreparable harm to western states.” Read, download the comments.
