The EPA says farmers can keep using weedkiller blamed for vast crop damage

[sandensea]

For months, farmers from Mississippi to Minnesota have been waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency to make up its mind about a controversial weedkiller called dicamba.

Some farmers love the chemical; other farmers, along with some environmentalists, consider it a menace, because it's prone to drifting in the wind, damaging nearby crops and wild vegetation.

This week, on Halloween evening, the EPA finally announced its decision. Calling dicamba "a valuable pest control tool," it gave farmers a green light to keep spraying the chemical on new varieties of soybeans and cotton that have been genetically modified to tolerate dicamba.

A coalition of environmental groups that had filed a lawsuit against the EPA's original approval of dicamba blasted the decision to keep it on the market. Paul Achitoff from Earthjustice said in a statement that "EPA's disregard of both the law and the welfare of ... species at risk of extinction is unconscionable."

At: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/01/662918255/the-epa-says-farmers-can-keep-using-weedkiller-blamed-for-vast-crop-damage

Arkansas farmer David Wildy inspects a field of soybeans damaged by dicamba in 2017.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Aquaintance who runs about a thousand Acres of Beans,

was part of this lawsuit as well as his neighbors. There are Soybeans that are resistant to Dicamba,but the drift from those adjacent fields caused his yields to be from 50% or more lost as a result.

[rurallib]

2. that shit kills everything including trees

Another fucking Monsanto product

[littlemissmartypants]

3. It almost seems appropriate to change

the "P" in that acronym to psycophant. Thanks for the post, sandensea.

♡lmsp

[sandensea]

4. You're welcome. Would that such things never happened in 2018 America.

But as you know, that's all we can expect from these gangsters in power at the moment.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Gangsters definitely fits. I'm trying not to let it stress me

Out but it's hard.