The EPA, invoking the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), canceled all products containing the pesticide dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA). The agency cited numerous ...
EPA opened a public comment period on the regulation of endocrine-disrupting pesticides, a proposal with a drawn-out 10-year ...
“We’ve got to end the pesticide industry’s chokehold on the regulation of its own products and create a process that actually protects the health of people and the environment.” Although FIFRA was ...
Under FIFRA, pesticides are required for evaluation through EPA’s registration process to check that the products perform as intended. The EPA will not register a pesticide until it is confirmed ...
Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or FIFRA, the EPA oversees pesticide regulation in the U.S. To register a pesticide product for outdoor use, chemical companies must ...
Bress wrote that the EPA did not fully comply with FIFRA because it “failed to include additional ... ESA’s effect determination and consultation requirements’ in its pesticide registration decisions, ...
Undeterred, AgLogic is currently seeking a FIFRA Section 3 approval, which is the typical mechanism for a pesticide approval, noting that “…for Section 3 registrations EPA does not require the ...
These serious failures have emerged from systemic problems at EPA, through which OPP has undermined the purposes of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (which establishes ...
In February, a federal district court in Arizona vacated the only three post-emergent formulations of dicamba on the marketplace, marking the second time post-emergent dicamba registrations were vacat ...
Both the 9 th and 11 th Circuits determined that the only federal labeling requirement relevant to this analysis was FIFRA’s statutory definition of misbranding, which provides that a pesticide ...
89 Fed. Reg. 80558. Section 4(l) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires EPA to publish information about EPA’s annual achievements in this area. The Report ...
Anyone who distributes, sells, or offers for sale or distribution to anybody any pesticide not registered under component 3 of FIFRA is in violation of this law. Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides ...