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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
EPA and the agrichemical industry are defending the agency’s regulation of pesticides against claims by environmental groups that some of them are, in fact, PFAS.
The future’s uncertain for dicamba, a herbicide used to kill weeds in soybean and cotton fields that has been controversial since “low volatility” versions were labeled for use in 2017.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s timeline for reviewing a new dicamba label submitted by Bayer could mean growers won’t be able to use the herbicide next year.
There is big news today on the farm bill front. The House and Senate Agriculture committees are making dueling moves today in the partisan standoff over a new bill.
The fight over whether EPA should keep allowing paraquat to be sprayed on U.S. fields continued with dueling comments submitted to EPA on its recent reconsideration of a wide range of issues involving the controversial herbicide.
The Environmental Protection Agency has affirmed its finding that the “weight of evidence is insufficient” to link exposure from use of paraquat to Parkinson’s Disease in humans.
EPA did not adequately analyze the impact of streptomycin on pollinators or endangered species, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday, vacating the agency’s 2021 approval of the antibiotic for use on citrus.
A coalition of biofuels groups is pushing back at a federal appeals court ruling. The 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals last week vacated multiple denials of small refinery exemption requests from the biofuel blending mandates, ruling that the agency had used an “impermissibly retroactive” standard.