{"id":34328,"date":"2024-01-16T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=34328"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:57:03","slug":"take-action-epa-challenged-for-not-evaluating-pesticide-benefits-opens-public-comment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/01\/take-action-epa-challenged-for-not-evaluating-pesticide-benefits-opens-public-comment-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action: EPA Challenged for Not Assessing Claimed Pesticide “Benefits,” Opens Public Comment Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 16, 2024) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long been criticized for its failure to evaluate the effectiveness (or efficacy) of all the pesticides it registers. A petition, for which there is now an open public comment period (submit comments by January 22, 2024), challenges what advocates call a basic failure of the agency to evaluate the claimed benefits of pesticides. Because of this long-standing situation, those who purchase pesticides do not know that the pesticides they buy will meet expectations for control. For farmers, that means that EPA has not evaluated whether the pesticide\u2019s use actually increases productivity of the treated crops and\/or whether over time the target pest (weed, insect, fungus) will become resistant<\/a>. For consumers, it also means that there is not an independent analysis of whether the pesticide products work. As EPA implements the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), not only is there no agency assessment of whether the pesticide\u2019s use will achieve its intended purpose, there is not a determination as to whether there is a less toxic way of achieving the pest management goal.<\/p>\r\n

As Beyond Pesticides<\/a> cited last year, a piece published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal<\/em><\/a> (2020) sums it up well: \u201c[N]eonicotinoid [widely used insecticide] exposure is far higher than necessary to achieve plant protection and yield objectives. Neonicotinoid seed coatings rarely improve crop yield, and neonicotinoids are applied preventively to vast areas of turf, which cover more land in the United States than any other irrigated crop, even when pests are absent or below thresholds. . . . Risks to many terrestrial, aquatic, and detrital organisms and ecosystems have been documented. Considering these risks, advocacy groups have frequently promoted outright bans on all neonicotinoids in all circumstances, and this stance seems easy to justify.\u201d Nearly ten years agon, \u201cHeavy Costs\u2014Weighing the Value of Neonicotinoid insecticides in Agriculture<\/a>\u201d (Center for Food Safety, 2014) concluded that, \u201cEPA should suspend all existing registrations of neonicotinoid seed treatment products whose costs and benefits have not been adequately weighed until this accounting is completed.<\/p>\r\n

The petition open for public comment is requesting the adoption of rules that require efficacy data be submitted for systemic insecticides by manufacturers registering these pesticides with EPA. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

>>EPA must require submission of efficacy data and make findings based on evidence that benefits outweigh risks before registering a pesticide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Petitioners ask that manufacturers of neonicotinoids (neonics) or other systemic insecticides be required to prove that they work as intended and do not \u201csubject species, ecosystems, and people to abject devastation with no benefit to users.\u201d In fact, Section 3(c)(5) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that EPA determine whether the pesticide will perform its intended function, when used \u201cin accordance with widespread and commonly recognized practice,\u201d without \u201cunreasonable adverse effects on the environment.\u201d \u201cUnreasonable adverse effects on the environment\u201d means \u201cany unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The petitioners submit support for their contention that systemic insecticides are not effective and that they cause widespread harm to the environment, including birds, honey bees, aquatic ecosystems, and wildlife. The petition says, \u201cThe species impacted include all amphibians, and the majority of endangered fish, birds, and mammals, as well as pollinators and the plants they pollinate.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The petitioners also point to results showing\u00a0lack of benefits<\/a>\u2014including a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by EPA’s Biological and Economic Analysis Division (BEAD) showing that systemic insecticides generally do not provide benefits when used to protect soybeans.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Thus, the petitioners make a case that registration should be denied to these systemic insecticides, since FIFRA Section 3(c)(6) requires EPA to deny registration if \u201cthe Administrator determines that the requirements of paragraph (5) for registration are not satisfied.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

But how can EPA make any determination without efficacy data? The petitioners say that because the case they make shows that systemic insecticides do not meet the criteria for registration, EPA must request efficacy data for those pesticides. However, the same is true for all pesticides. EPA cannot meet the statutory prerequisite for registration without weighing data on both risks and benefits. Instead, as pointed out by the petitioners, EPA says, \u201crather than require efficacy data the Agency presumes that benefits exceed risks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In 2021, a coalition of groups, including PEER and Beyond Pesticides,\u00a0issued a scathing critique<\/a>\u00a0of the performance of EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs \u2014 embedded in the groups’ advocacy for a series of 25 reforms. The petition tackles one specific aspect of EPA’s process on one class of insecticides. The agency’s track record, on so many pesticides, is to deal with one compound (under a narrow range of circumstances and\/or narrow time frame and\/or specific exposure levels) at a time. Beyond Pesticides has dubbed this the \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d struggle on pesticides.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Each regulatory baby step at EPA represents small, incremental advances on a pesticide problem that is vast in scope\u2014an approach that is wholly inadequate to the devastation that toxic pesticides are causing, and it continues the \u201ccollision course\u201d we are on re: human health and well-being, biodiversity collapse, and the climate crisis.\u202fA precautionary approach<\/a>\u2014captured in\u00a0organic, regenerative agriculture and land management<\/a>\u00a0protocols\u2014is\u202ffar\u202fmore suited to the task of genuinely protecting public health and the environment than EPA’s current, industry-friendly, piecemeal approach.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The availability of alternative materials and practices that prevent (or vastly reduce) toxic hazards, as are used in\u00a0organic<\/a>\u00a0management, makes the dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides even more reprehensible. A genuinely protective approach to pests (floral or faunal) in agriculture and land management starts with transitioning from chemical dependency to organic land management in food production, and parks, playing fields, and all recreational and public spaces. In the meantime, efforts to push EPA will continue to move the needle, however slowly and haltingly. EPA should take seriously its mission: to protect human health and the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

>>EPA must require submission of efficacy data and make findings based on evidence that benefits outweigh risks before registering a pesticide<\/a>.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The target\u00a0for this Action is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u00a0via Regulations.gov.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Letter to EPA<\/u><\/p>\r\n

I am writing to support the petition\u00a0 asking that manufacturers of neonicotinoids (neonics) or other systemic insecticides be required to prove that they work as intended and do not \u201csubject species, ecosystems, and people to abject devastation with no benefit to users.\u201d In fact, Section 3(c)(5) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that EPA determine whether the pesticide will perform its intended function, when used \u201cin accordance with widespread and commonly recognized practice,\u201d without \u201cunreasonable adverse effects on the environment.\u201d \u201cUnreasonable adverse effects on the environment\u201d means \u201cany unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

It has been shown that systemic insecticides are not effective in soybean production and that they cause widespread harm to the environment, including birds, honey bees, aquatic ecosystems, and wildlife. The petition says, \u201cThe species impacted include all amphibians, and the majority of endangered fish, birds, and mammals, as well as pollinators and the plants they pollinate.\u201d The petitioners point to results showing lack of benefits\u2014including a report by EPA\u2019s Biological and Economic Analysis Division (BEAD) showing that systemic insecticides generally do not provide benefits when used to protect soybeans.<\/p>\r\n

Thus, the petitioners make a case that registration should be denied to these systemic insecticides, since FIFRA Section 3(c)(6) requires EPA to deny registration if \u201cthe Administrator determines that the requirements of paragraph (5) for registration are not satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

But how can EPA make any determination without efficacy data? The petitioners say that because the case they make shows that systemic insecticides do not meet the criteria for registration, EPA must request efficacy data for those pesticides. The same is true for all pesticides. EPA cannot meet the statutory prerequisite for registration without weighing data on both risks and benefits. Instead, as pointed out by the petitioners, EPA says, \u201crather than require efficacy data the Agency presumes that benefits exceed risks.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Each regulatory baby step at EPA represents small, incremental advances on a pesticide problem that is now vast in scope\u2014an approach that is wholly inadequate to the devastation that toxic pesticides are causing, and it continues the \u201ccollision course\u201d we are on re: human health and well-being, biodiversity collapse, and the climate crisis.\u202fA precautionary approach\u202f\u2014 captured in alternatives like organic, regenerative agriculture and land management protocols \u2014 is\u202ffar\u202fmore suited to the task of genuinely protecting public health and the environment than EPA\u2019s current, industry friendly, piecemeal approach. This approach is viable under the \u201cunreasonable adverse effects\u201d standard of review under FIFRA.<\/p>\r\n

The availability of alternative materials and practices that prevent (or vastly reduce) toxic hazards, as are used in organic management, makes the dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides even more reprehensible and \u201cunreasonable.\u201d A genuinely protective approach to pests (floral or faunal) in agriculture and land management starts with transitioning from chemical dependency to organic land management in food production, and parks, playing fields, and all recreational and public spaces. In the meantime, the petitions request for efficacy review will push the pesticide registration review process to move the needle, however slowly and haltingly. EPA should take seriously its mission: to protect human health and the environment.<\/p>\r\n

Thank you for your consideration of these comments.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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