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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 02, 2025
EPA’s final herbicide strategy, designed to protect more than 900 species listed as threatened or endangered, includes more options for growers and reduces the burden on applicators compared to the draft released last year, the agency said Tuesday.
In this opinion piece, Alexandra Dunn, president and CEO of CropLife America, highlights the innovative technology that growers rely on for the efficiency of farming communities while urging Congress to allocate proper funding for EPA oversight.
The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to make its endangered species herbicide strategy easier for growers to implement by adding more conservation practices and using better maps.
The Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it will likely revise a proposal designed to reduce harmful impacts on endangered species from pesticides by “minimizing” rather than prohibiting applications in species habitat.
The Environmental Protection Agency got a reminder, as if it needed one, of the need for a legally sufficient plan addressing the risks of pesticides to endangered species when a federal appeals court ordered it Tuesday to issue a new assessment on an insecticide used in blueberry and citrus production.
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a long-awaited workplan addressing how it plans to meet obligations to both protect endangered species and register pesticides.
A bipartisan infrastructure deal is alive and well after the Senate voted 67-32 Wednesday evening to begin debate on the measure. An agreement was reached earlier in the day on the package’s final details.
Senior leaders in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention altered or omitted key evidence in approving dicamba for use in 2018, leading to a federal appeal court’s vacating of the registrations, according to the agency's internal watchdog.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to work with state pesticide regulators on its review of dicamba herbicides, as the registration deadline approaches for new formulations that have been the subject of thousands of drift damage complaints.
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