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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 28, 2025
The Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct a one-year status review of the Iowa skipper butterfly to determine whether it deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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.
EPA’s top pesticide official said Wednesday she doesn’t know what the agency’s official response will be to the decision Tuesday to vacate registrations of dicamba.
The Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and several farmworker advocacy groups are pushing the EPA to cancel glyphosate's registration in light of a federal court decision that found fault with the agency's human health assessment.
A federal appeals court says it doesn’t have jurisdiction over a challenge to dicamba registrations brought by soybean and cotton growers, leaving the herbicide's fate in the hands of a pair of district courts entertaining somewhat differing lawsuits.
