Roundup Resistance Spurs Texas Push for Emergency Use of Controversial Herbicide on GE Cotton

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 27, 2014.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a requestby Texas regulators to allow the use of a controversial herbicide, propazine, to battle Palmer amaranth, a glyphosate-resistant “super weed” that has been plaguing growers of genetically engineered (GE) herbicide-tolerant cotton in the state. Propazine, an active ingredient in Milo-Pro, would be sprayed on up to 3 million acres, which amounts to approximately half of the state’s estimated crop acreage for this…