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 ...
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 ...
Bress wrote that the EPA did not fully comply with FIFRA because it “failed to include additional data in its pollinator risk assessment or explain why such data was not necessary” and “suggested that ...
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 ...
to investigate whether registrants are reporting adverse effects as required and whether EPA is taking action based on that ...
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 ...
EPA primarily regulates the sale, distribution and use of pesticides pursuant to its authority under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Under FIFRA, EPA is involved ...
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 ...
“For 50 years FIFRA’s glaring failures have allowed dangerous levels of harm to U.S. farmworkers, public health and our most-endangered wildlife,” said J.W. Glass, EPA policy specialist at the Center ...
For example, on Aug. 2, EPA Administrator Michael Regan issued an emergency order of suspension for all registrations of the herbicide DCPA, or Dacthal, under FIFRA Section 6, which took effect ...