For the third time, the House Agriculture Committee approved a bill to override a court decision on permits for pesticides applied on or near federally regulated waters. A ruling by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals required farmers and other pesticide users to obtain a clean-water permit to apply pesticides that are regulated under a pesticide law. “As a result, many farmers, ranchers, water resource boards and public health professionals involved in mosquito control are subject to costly and duplicative burdens providing no quantifiable public health or environmental benefit,” said the committee in a release. The House passed the bill, which removes the requirement for a clean-water permit, twice before, but both times the legislation died in the Senate.