Groups fault EPA drift protections in Dicamba lawsuit

February 16, 2018
Environmental groups have filed their opening brief in litigation over EPA's approval of the decades-old herbicide dicamba for use on genetically-modified (GM) cotton and soybean crops, faulting agency assertions that its 2016 registration included adequate restrictions to prevent the product from drifting onto neighboring farmers' fields. In the Feb. 13 opening brief , groups including the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice fault EPA's November 2016 registration of Monsanto's dicamba formulation Xtendimax with Vapor Grip, arguing the agency failed to...


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