{"id":33748,"date":"2023-10-20T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=33748"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:58:52","slug":"take-action-today-tell-epa-to-end-pesticide-dependency-endangered-species-plan-is-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2023\/10\/take-action-today-tell-epa-to-end-pesticide-dependency-endangered-species-plan-is-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action Today: Tell EPA To End Pesticide Dependency, Endangered Species Plan Is Inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, October 20, 2023)\u00a0Comments are due October 22. This action requires use of Regulations.gov. See instructions and proposed comment language that can be copy and pasted by clicking HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to \u201cprotect\u201d endangered species, its Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework<\/a>,<\/em> continues a legacy of failed risk assessment and mitigation measures that do not meet the moment of looming biodiversity collapse. This is a critical time for the agency to embrace real fundamental change in how it regulates pesticides, recognizing that land management strategies, including in agriculture, exist that are no longer reliant on pesticides. This is not a time to tinker with strategies that EPA admits fall short.<\/p>\r\n

Recognizing that its Pesticide Program has failed to meet its obligation to protect endangered species from registered pesticides, EPA has come up with a strategy to redefine its responsibilities to protect endangered species in its pesticide registration and registration review program.<\/em> According to EPA, \u201cThe proposed Strategy is structured to provide flexibility to growers to choose mitigations that work best for their situation. Additionally, the draft Strategy may require more or less mitigation for growers\/pesticide applicators depending on their location.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Understandably, EPA has taken this approach, finding it virtually impossible to meet the statutory obligations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)\u2014given the fact that the agency itself admits, \u201cEPA’s Pesticide Program has been unable to keep pace with its ESA workload, resulting not only in inadequate protections for listed species but also successful litigation against the Agency.\u201d And, \u201cEven if EPA completed this work for all of the pesticides that are currently subject to court decisions and\/or ongoing litigation, that work would take until the 2040s, and even then, would represent only 5% of EPA’s ESA obligations.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

This action requires use of Regulations.gov. Click on <\/strong>this link<\/strong><\/a>. Then write your comments or copy and paste from this post. See copy and paste languag<\/a>e. Comments are due October 22.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

EPA starts with the position that farmers must use toxic chemicals, an assumption that clouds and undermines the regulatory process and keeps farmers on the pesticide treadmill. EPA says, \u201cWithout certain pesticide products, farmers could have trouble growing crops that feed Americans and public health agencies could lack the tools needed to combat insect-borne diseases.\u201d Not true. Organic farmers are not reliant on these pesticides.<\/p>\r\n

EPA recognizes that it needs to fundamentally change. But to EPA, the \u201cfundamental change\u201d means risk mitigation measures that have failed miserably over its history\u2014drift mitigation being one of many key failures. In fact, the fundamental change that is needed is change of agricultural practices that have kept farmers dependent on chemical-intensive practices. Fundamental change requires EPA in every pesticide registration and registration review to ask whether there are practices that can eliminate the harm, not reduce risk with high degrees of uncertainty.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The planet faces an existential biodiversity crisis, with a rising number of species on the brink of extinction. The goal of ESA is to address the broader issue of biodiversity loss by protecting habitats of species most at risk, or, as stated in ESA, to \u201cProvide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and to take such steps as may be appropriate to achieve the purposes of the treaties and conventions set forth. . .\u201d in the law.<\/p>\r\n

On the contrary, EPA\u2019s language about its proposed changes includes phrases like \u201cdraft Strategy may require more or less mitigation for growers\/pesticide applicators depending on their location.\u201d That is not a plan to avoid biodiversity collapse.<\/p>\r\n

Pesticide use is a major cause of declining biodiversity, which is manifested in extinctions, endangered species, and species vulnerable to environmental disturbances\u2014including climate change, habitat fragmentation, and toxic chemicals. If EPA is serious about protecting biodiversity, it must look first to the ways it has created the crisis in the first place.<\/p>\r\n

Yet EPA admits the limitations of its own proposal, saying, \u201cThe scope of this document is limited to spray drift, aqueous runoff, and runoff of sediment-bound residues (erosion).\u201d Moreover, EPA fails to recognize that the agency does not have toxicological data for key endpoints or health outcomes like endocrine disruption, an effect that can wipe out a species by undermining its ability to reproduce.<\/p>\r\n

Pesticides are a major contributor to the loss of insect biomass and diversity known as the \u201cinsect apocalypse,\u201d posing a threat to life on Earth. EPA\u2019s registration of insecticides has always endangered insects, but herbicides destroy the food and habitat of insects. Similarly, pesticides threaten food webs in aquatic and marine environments.<\/p>\r\n

Pesticides threaten frogs and other amphibians in a way that demonstrates the potential to warp the growth and reproduction of all animals. Agricultural intensification, in particular pesticide and fertilizer use, is the leading factor driving declines in bird populations.<\/p>\r\n

Industrial agriculture eliminates habitat\u2014either through outright destruction or through toxic contamination. In much of the U.S., agricultural fields are bare for half the year and support a single plant species for the other half. As opposed to industrial agriculture, organic producers are required to conserve\u2014protect and increase\u2014biodiversity.<\/p>\r\n

In other words, a major reason that species are endangered is that EPA has registered pesticides that harm them. If EPA is to really protect endangered species, it must eliminate the use of toxic pesticides and encourage organic production<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n

This action requires use of Regulations.gov. Click on <\/strong>this link<\/strong><\/a>. Then write your comments or copy and paste from this post. See copy and paste language<\/a>. Comments are due October 22.
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\r\n<\/strong>Thank you for your commitment to creating a world free of toxic pesticides!<\/em>
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