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SOYBEAN DAMAGE: Dicamba was blamed for crop damage in the early years of over-the-top application. A recent EPA Office of the Inspector General Report , questioned practices in early registrations for the new use. Inspector General investigation finds EPA deviated from typical procedures in 2018 dicamba pesticide registration.
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 decision to extend registrations for three dicamba pesticide products varied from typical operating procedures, according to a new investigative report from the EPA’s Office of Inspector General. However, EPA and the pesticide makers are confident science-based procedures uphold the safety of the widely-used pesticide in its latest 2020 re-registration.
Now that policymakers have acknowledged how “essential” farmworkers are, what will they do to protect these workers in the face of a warming planet and increased risk at work?
https://www.afinalwarning.com/516091.html (Natural News) Mexico plans to ban genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate by January 2024. And agrochemical giants operating in the United States where Mexico gets over a quarter of its corn are not happy about it. Emails revealed companies like Bayer AG, along with U.S. officials, are pressuring Mexico to drop the ban.
In a letter sent Thursday, April 29, to important figures in the Biden administration, a coalition of 80 nonprofit groups in the U.S. wrote that they strongly object to any interference by U.S. government officials in a sovereign state’s right to enact policies that protect the health and well-being of its citizens.
The pesticide chlorpyrifos has had a turbulent past few years.
The pesticide, marketed under brand names including Dursban and (until recently) Lorsban, is an insecticide designed to target biting insects such as aphids. It has also been repeatedly linked to neurological damage in children and has been the subject of repeated fines and scandals. Now, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has given the EPA 60 days to either fix its regulation or the pesticide will be banned entirely.
In 2007, Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and the NRDC filed a petition to ban chlorpyrifos, citing those child neurological problems caused by the pesticide. Many years later, the EPA’s own research found that chlorpyrifos is unsafe when used in its typical fashion, leading to a revocation of the pesticide in 2015, under then-President Barack Obama. Within two years, though, under President Donald Trump, the EPA’s chief, Scott Pruitt, chose to ignore those findings, sayi
80 Groups Blast US Interference in Mexico s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn
Published: May 3, 2021
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at Common Dreams.
A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies” specifically, the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
“Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree,” Timothy A. Wise of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (ITAP) noted earlier this year. “His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also phase out GM corn imports in three years and the ban would include not just corn for human consump