A tug-of-war over control of the agriculture industry's use of pesticides and genetically modified crops is playing out in the Hawaii Legislature as lawmakers consider bills that would limit counties' regulatory abilities and create pesticide buffer zones around schools. Bills pushed by advocates on opposite sides of the issue advanced out of two committees Thursday after hours of emotional testimony that prompted two different committee chairmen to threaten to call the Sergeant at Arms when testifiers wouldn't settle down.
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