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SENATORS OBJECT TO EPA'S DIRECTION ON PESTICIDES
Jan. 24, 2022
Agri-Pulse reports:
Four Republican senators have told EPA Administrator Michael Regan they're worried about the "problematic direction" they say the agency is taking on pesticides.
After a Zoom call last with Regan week, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, Iowa's Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, and Indiana's Mike Braun issued a joint statement criticizing EPA's "overly conservative, political decision" to revoke food tolerances for chlorpyrifos as well as December's "unrequired, not mandated report" that documented dicamba damage complaints.
They also criticized EPA's assessments of the impacts of glyphosate, atrazine and simazine on endangered species and the agency's stated intention to re-evaluate an aquatic plant life benchmark for triazine herbicides.
To read their statement click here.
"If the EPA restricts some of the most widely used and basic weed and pest control products, then our food production will be set back decades and will all but eliminate agriculture's ability to store carbon in our soil," the senators said. "We don't think that EPA is sufficiently engaged with USDA, the registrants, and growers to fully understand" the implications of their decisions.
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