The '''Natural Resources Defense Council''' (NRDC) is an [[environmental activist]] group<ref>a well-known anti-chemical, anti-business activist group, best know[n] heretofore for promulgating (with the crucial assistance of CBS News) the great [[Alar scare]] of 1989. [http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.1901/healthissue_detail.asp]</ref>which challenged the safety of [[Alar]], a compound that was sometimes sprayed on apple trees before apples formed, to reduce early drop. <ref>[http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results.html?artId=20647Alar: The Great Apple Scare]- by Jay Lehr and Sam Aldrich - Environment & Climate News</ref> ==Notes==<references />
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