This allowed farmers to spray the crops with the herbicide and have only the weeds die. The EPA also approved conditional ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed approvals for three products containing the weedkiller dicamba ...

Experts have warned that if the EPA were to bring back dicamba, the results would be devastating—as they have been in the ...

Before EPA's October 27 announcement, Bayer and BASF had each announced several new products, including seed and chemistries, that relied on dicamba’s approval for full use.

The agency said its reviews of dicamba did not identify "risks of concern for potential human health exposure.” ...

Environmental groups sued the agency to halt the approval and won. In June 2020, federal appeals court ordered the EPA to cancel all registrations for use on dicamba-tolerant crops.

Dicamba drift has damaged millions of acres of soybeans, and caused devastating damage to farms, home gardens, native plants and wildlife refuges throughout the Midwest and South. Experts have found ...

With or without approval of the new herbicide, some affected farmers have indicated they will be forced to switch to dicamba-resistant varieties as an insurance policy for future growing seasons.

That wish, for two more years at least, has been granted. On Wednesday, the EPA extended the registration of dicamba for two years, calling the chemical “a valuable tool” for farmers.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 at 12:01 am and is filed under Arizona, Dicamba, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Genetic Engineering, Herbicides, Office of Inspector ...

About two years. That’s all the time you have to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) you and your neighbors will follow new dicamba formulation label requirements, or the agency ...

Contact: Bill Freese, Center for Food Safety, (814) 753-2895, bfreese@centerforfoodsafety.org Nathan Donley, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6406, ndonley@biologicaldiversity.org Trump EPA ...