Agency Opens Door to Massive Increase in Pesticide Use, Fails to Examine Threat to Endangered Species
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2016. Ignoring the legal requirement to examine threats to endangered species, the Environmental Protection Agency today approved the use of the dangerously toxic herbicide dicamba on crops genetically engineered to tolerate the pesticide. Dicamba has been around for decades, but this new EPA decision allows the herbicide to be sprayed directly on genetically engineered cotton and soybeans…
