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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, November 4, 2020) Despite a recent court ruling<\/a> voiding the registration of drift-prone dicamba herbicides on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and soybeans, EPA has renewed\u00a0 the registration of these chemicals. The court\u2019s ruling stated that EPA, \u201csubstantially understated risks that it acknowledged and failed entirely to acknowledge other risks,\u201d in regards to the herbicides XtendiMax and Eugenia (dicamba), produced by agrichemical corporations Bayer and BASF for their genetically engineered (GE) crops. In announcing the decision, Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the agency made its decision \u201c[a]fter reviewing substantial amounts of new information, conducting scientific assessments based on the best available science, and carefully considering input from stakeholders.\u201d Yet, it is evident that the most important stakeholders for EPA continues to be chemical corporations.<\/p>\n

The history of dicamba\u2019s use in GE agriculture reveal this to be the case. In the mid-2010s, Bayer\u2019s Monsanto developed new dicamba-tolerant seeds<\/a> and received approval to sell them from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. EPA had not yet approved its corresponding herbicide, but nonetheless, Bayer\u2019s Monsanto urged farmers to plant its seed<\/a>, claiming they would increase yields. The results of this were predictable: farmers began to use older, unapproved dicamba formulations on their new GE seeds<\/a>, and reports of drift damage began to spring up throughout the US. \u00a0Dicamba has a strong propensity to drift off-site and can defoliate other crops at very low levels. Rather than take regulatory action to stop illegal use, EPA and USDA sat on their hands while the chemicals pitted farmer against farmer<\/a>, neighbor against neighbor<\/a>, in communities throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n

In 2016, EPA approved<\/a> agrichemical companies\u2019 new \u201clow volatility\u201d dicamba herbicide formulations under a two year conditional registration. But by the end of 2017, according to court records and reporting from Reuters<\/a>, state agriculture departments, primarily in the US Midwest, had been called for over 2,600 incident reports, and scientists indicated over 3.6 million acres of non-GE soybean crops had been damaged by dicamba drift \u2013 likely an underestimate according to EPA\u2019s own staff.<\/p>\n

EPA tried to tweak the label of the herbicide to lessen the impact, while Bayer persisted in blaming farmers for using older dicamba formulations. The agency let Bayer write it\u2019s own rules on drift procedures<\/a>, undermining the independent scientist who worked closely with the company at the last second. This led to the agency reapproving the highly drift-prone herbicide<\/a> for another two year stint.<\/p>\n

Advocates sued. The case worked its way through the courts, eventually resulting in a rare rebuke of EPA under the nation\u2019s federal pesticide law, the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The written court ruling<\/a> by the U.S. Ninth Circuit noted how EPA made its label language so difficult to understand as to make it \u201cdifficult if not impossible to follow for even conscientious users.\u201d The agency also failed to consider the \u201canti-competitive economic effects\u201d on non-GE markets \u2013 a knock against the agency\u2019s propensity to favor chemical industry executives. And perhaps most egregiously, the judge ruled that EPA failed to account for how \u201cdicamba use would tear the social fabric of farming communities.\u201d The evidence was there, yet EPA sided with moneyed interests over the well-being of average Americans in farming communities.<\/p>\n

Now, EPA is not only ignoring its statutory duties, but rejecting them and helping to perpetuate the chemical industry\u2019s bad behavior. Its reapproved dicamba formulations come with i) new \u201cimportant control measures\u201d requiring a buffering agent (of questionably efficacy) be used; ii) a larger buffer (one roughly the size recommended by the independent scientists EPA allowed Bayer to overrule); iii) restrictions that prohibit use after July 30 (meaningless since that is roughly the end of the growing season) and; iv) an amorphous commitment to \u201csimplifying the label and use directions\u201d of dicamba products. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEPA believes that these new analyses address the concerns expressed in regard to EPA\u2019s 2018 dicamba registrations in the June 2020 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth\u00a0Circuit,\u201d the agency\u2019s press release states. \u00a0Health and environmental advocates have already announced they will go back to court to challenge the decision.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reworking EPA into an effective agency that lives up to its namesake will take time, effort, and significant involvement by all Americans. It is critically important to put pressure on elected officials hold government agencies accountable to the people, not the profits and compensation packages of agrichemical industry executives. Join Beyond Pesticides<\/a> and help us fight for a more just regulatory system. For more information on the hazards of dicamba and GE agriculture, see Beyond Pesticides webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Source: EPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, November 4, 2020) Despite a recent court ruling voiding the registration of drift-prone dicamba herbicides on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and soybeans, EPA has renewed\u00a0 the registration of these chemicals. The court\u2019s ruling stated that EPA, \u201csubstantially understated risks that it acknowledged and failed entirely to acknowledge other risks,\u201d in regards to the herbicides XtendiMax and Eugenia (dicamba), produced by agrichemical corporations Bayer and BASF for their genetically engineered (GE) crops. In announcing the decision, Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the agency made its decision \u201c[a]fter reviewing substantial amounts of new information, conducting scientific assessments based on the best available science, and carefully considering input from stakeholders.\u201d Yet, it is evident that the most important stakeholders for EPA continues to be chemical corporations. The history of dicamba\u2019s use in GE agriculture reveal this to be the case. In the mid-2010s, Bayer\u2019s Monsanto developed new dicamba-tolerant seeds and received approval to sell them from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. EPA had not yet approved its corresponding herbicide, but nonetheless, Bayer\u2019s Monsanto urged farmers to plant its seed, claiming they would increase yields. 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