EPA will continue to allow farmers to spray a hotly contested and MAHA-targeted weedkiller linked to cancer.
The agency announced Friday afternoon it approved an application for dicamba uses on genetically engineered soybean and cotton, with restrictions.
Federal courts have rejected EPA’s past two attempts to register dicamba over the herbicide’s tendency to drift when sprayed, killing neighboring crops.
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“EPA recognizes that previous drift issues created legitimate concerns, and designed these new label restrictions to directly address them,” the agency’s Friday alert said, which deemed the decision “the strongest protections in agency history for over-the-top (OTT) dicamba application.”
