- Environmental Policy
- (Re)registration of Crop Protection Products
- Chlorpyrifos
- Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA)
- The Clean Water Act's Effects on Aerial Application
- Ongoing Redefinition of Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) - Potential Expansion of CWA Jeopardy
- The Endangered Species Act's (ESA) Effect on Aerial Application
- Pollinator Protection
- Issues Related to Spray Drift
- Occupational Exposure of Pesticides and Aerial Application
- Federal Aerial Application Research Funding
- The Effects of Climate Change Policy on the Ag Aviation Industry
- Clean Air Act and Leaded Avgas
- Prospective ISO Aerial Application Standard
- Local Efforts to Ban Aerial Application
- Fieldwatch (TM) / Driftwatch (TM)
- NPDES Pesticide General Permit
- Tax Issues
- Aviation and Transportation Policy
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Security Issues
- Towers Policy
- Grassroots Advocacy
Environmental Policy
NAAA works to educate policymakers and affect congressional and federal agency decisions to ensure their policies for pest control, plant health, environmental protection, and vector control pertaining to the use of pesticides and fertilizers use the best available science, professional techniques, and modern application technologies used by the aerial application industry; as well as the benefits aerial application provides agriculture and the environment. These benefits include efficient and precise applications of agricultural inputs, often to areas inaccessible to ground application; prevention of topsoil compaction and crop damage by spraying above the crop canopy; and yield enhancement through pest control on food, feed, bio-energy and fiber crops on fewer acres of land. This allows for the preservation of large areas of sensitive and bio-diverse ecosystems.