Google Seeks EPA Approval to Release Millions of Modified Mosquitoes in California and Florida Google is seeking federal approval for a program called Debug that would release up to 32 million male mosquitoes in California and Florida to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes, according to a permit application published in the Federal Register on May 1. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing the request for an experimental use permit under Section 5 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) with public comments due by June 5. [1] The targeted species, Aedes aegypti, carries dengue, Zika, yellow fever and chikungunya.…

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