Soybean and cotton farmers using dicamba are reeling after a federal judge revoked the national permit for the popular herbicide.
It works for them because crops are genetically modified to resist the herbicide dicamba, and weeds in those fields are sprayed without harming the soybeans or cotton plants.
Deliveries of
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and Matthew M. Graves of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington D.C. are all being sued over some popular herbicides.
The Center for Food Safety, the Pesticide Action Network North America, and Nacional De Campesinas have sued the
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City water utilities as far-flung as Mobile, AL, Evanston, IL, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC, and Thorton, CO are scrambling to explain they are still selling a safe product.
That need comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved the goal posts “on an advisory basis” for acceptable levels
Continue Reading Some city water utilities have bad news for customers because of ‘forever chemicals’
This week, more than 80 agricultural groups filed formal objections to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Aug. 30 rule to revoke all tolerances of chlorpyrifos. Stakeholders, by law, can object to pesticide tolerance changes or cancellations, and the EPA Administrator must then respond.
The EPA on Aug. 18 announced the ban
Continue Reading Ag leaders say withdrawal of chlorpyrifos by EPA hurts American farmers
Both because it wants to and because a federal court wants it done, the EPA will be working on a new Navigable Waters Protection Rule.
Such work has gone on now for almost 50 years. The Clean Water Act of 1972 says adding pollutants or dredge or fill material into
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will stop the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all food for the protection of human health, particularly that of children and farmworkers.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan said chlorpyrifos’s removal from the marketplace is “an overdue step to protect public
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