{"id":17390,"date":"2016-01-29T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=17390"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:45:47","slug":"court-rejects-epas-bid-to-revoke-use-of-dows-24-dglypphosate-enlist-duo-pesticide-in-ge-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/01\/court-rejects-epas-bid-to-revoke-use-of-dows-24-dglypphosate-enlist-duo-pesticide-in-ge-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rejects EPA’s Bid to Revoke Use of Dow’s 2,4-D\/Glyphosate (Enlist Duo) Pesticide in GE Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, January 29, 2016<\/em>) This week, the 9th<\/sup> U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a victory to Dow Chemical Company and its \u00a0efforts to keep the toxic pesticide Enlist Duo on the market, despite new safety concerns identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). \u00a0Enlist Duo has been marketed as a \u201csolution\u201d for the control of glyphosate-resistant weeds in genetically engineered (GE) crops, brought on by the \u00a0widespread use of Monsanto’s \u00a0Roundup<\/a> \u00a0on glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) crops over the last decade. EPA asked the court at the end of November, 2015 to vacate its 2014 approval of Enlist Duo based on new information on the \u00a0toxic effects associated with the synergistic interactions of \u00a0the chemical cocktail of 2,4-D, glyphosate, and other undisclosed ingredients in the product to plants outside the treated area, including endangered plants. The three-sentence order, which does not include \u00a0the judge\u2019s reasoning, denied EPA\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

\"threeenlistsystemcomponentsEnlistDuoherbicideEnlisttraitsEnlistAhead\"While considering other legal options, EPA can choose \u00a0to exercise it administrative powers by \u00a0canceling specific uses or the entire \u00a0registration of Enlist Duo under \u00a0its pesticide cancellation process, and within that process could choose to identify an imminent hazard and remove the pesticide from the market immediately, while it faces additional challenges from Dow. Otherwise, the normal cancellation process could take years before the matter is resolved. Additionally, to protect farmers \u00a0and dealers, EPA could issue a product notice immediately, identifying new issues and findings that were not available at the time of registration. EPA, according to the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, criticized Dow for failing to disclose information from a patent filing which states that the glyphosate and 2,4-D in Enlist Duo are more effective at killing weeds in combination than individually. Did \u00a0Dow withhold from the EPA registration process product safety information it was or should have been aware of at the time it submitted, and until it completed, its \u00a0registration application? \u00a0This question \u00a0raises issues of fraud or \u00a0noncompliance.<\/p>\n

Super weeds<\/a>, \u00a0associated with crops that are genetically engineered for herbicide tolerance, now infest tens of millions of acres of U.S. farmland. Moreover, independent and USDA scientists predict that the Enlist Duo \u201ccrop system\u201d will only foster resistance to 2,4-D in addition to glyphosate, thus continuing the GE crop pesticide treadmill and escalating the cycle of more toxic pesticides in the environment. Additionally, the health effects of both 2,4-D and glyphosate are well documented. 2,4-D has been linked to \u00a0soft tissue sarcoma<\/a>, \u00a0non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma<\/a> \u00a0(NHL), neurotoxicity, kidney\/liver damage, and harm to the reproductive system. Glyphosate was classified as a human carcinogen<\/a> \u00a0based on laboratory studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in March, 2015. Then, in June, 2015, 2,4-D was classified as a carcinogen by IARC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest court action follows on the heels of a \u00a0year-long legal challenge<\/a> \u00a0filed by a coalition of conservation groups, including Beyond Pesticides, seeking to rescind the \u00a0approval of the hazardous \u00a0herbicide blend<\/a>, and challenging EPA\u2019s failure to consider the impacts of Enlist Duo on threatened and endangered plants and animals protected under the \u00a0Endangered Species Act<\/em>. In response to this legal challenge, as well as evidence that surfaced suggesting that EPA ignored evidence of kidney problems that Dow\u2019s own researchers said were caused by 2, 4-D, EPA asked the court to revoke<\/a> the registration of Enlist Duo while it reevaluated the synergistic effects of the chemicals in the product. The agency action to revoke the registration was challenged by Dow which, in the wake of this decision, will continue to be able to sell Enlist Duo in the interim time it will take EPA to make a full, secondary evaluation of the weedkiller, posing a continued threat to human health and public safety, and endangered plants.<\/p>\n

EPA \u00a0wants to figure out whether bigger no-spray zones are needed to protect endangered plants on the edges of farm fields. Environmental groups in this case have argued that EPA has never evaluated the effect that Enlist Duo would have on the \u00a0declining monarch butterfly population \u00a0<\/a>or its effects on public health, both of which they feel should be evaluated in EPA\u2019s current review. This case highlights the problems caused by EPA\u2019s trend<\/a> of approving pesticides without adequate review.<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides has long advocated a regulatory approach \u00a0that prohibits high hazard chemical use and requires alternative assessments. Beyond Pesticides \u00a0suggests an approach that rejects uses and exposures deemed acceptable under risk assessment calculations filled with uncertainty, and instead focuses on \u00a0safer alternatives that are proven effective, such as \u00a0organic agriculture<\/a>, which prohibits the the vast majority \u00a0of toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Beyond Pesticides, January 29, 2016) This week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a victory to Dow Chemical Company and its \u00a0efforts to keep the toxic pesticide Enlist Duo on the market, despite new safety concerns identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). \u00a0Enlist Duo has been marketed as a \u201csolution\u201d for the control of glyphosate-resistant weeds in genetically engineered (GE) crops, brought on by the \u00a0widespread use of Monsanto’s \u00a0Roundup \u00a0on glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) crops over the last decade. EPA asked the court at the end of November, 2015 to vacate its 2014 approval of Enlist Duo based on new information on the \u00a0toxic effects associated with the synergistic interactions of \u00a0the chemical cocktail of 2,4-D, glyphosate, and other undisclosed ingredients in the product to plants outside the treated area, including endangered plants. The three-sentence order, which does not include \u00a0the judge\u2019s reasoning, denied EPA\u2019s request. While considering other legal options, EPA can choose \u00a0to exercise it administrative powers by \u00a0canceling specific uses or the entire \u00a0registration of Enlist Duo under \u00a0its pesticide cancellation process, and within that process could choose to identify an imminent hazard and remove the pesticide from the market immediately, while it faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,249,2,124,21,25,65,41,62,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24-d","category-agriculture","category-alternativesorganics","category-announcements","category-chemicals","category-corporations","category-dow","category-glyphosate","category-litigation","category-national-politics","category-pesticide-regulation"],"yoast_head":"\nCourt Rejects EPA's Bid to Revoke Use of Dow's 2,4-D\/Glyphosate (Enlist Duo) Pesticide in GE Crops - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/01\/court-rejects-epas-bid-to-revoke-use-of-dows-24-dglypphosate-enlist-duo-pesticide-in-ge-crops\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court Rejects EPA's Bid to Revoke Use of Dow's 2,4-D\/Glyphosate (Enlist Duo) Pesticide in GE Crops - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, January 29, 2016) This week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a victory to Dow Chemical Company and its \u00a0efforts to keep the toxic pesticide Enlist Duo on the market, despite new safety concerns identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). \u00a0Enlist Duo has been marketed as a \u201csolution\u201d for the control of glyphosate-resistant weeds in genetically engineered (GE) crops, brought on by the \u00a0widespread use of Monsanto’s \u00a0Roundup \u00a0on glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup Ready) crops over the last decade. 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