A group of environmental organizations led by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity wants new life given to their lawsuit over dicamba registrations. Bill Freese with the Center for Food Safety says they’re asking a federal court to lift a stay and speed up their lawsuit demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency vacate the 2020 dicamba registrations of Engenia, Tavium, and XtendiMax.
The groups filed a motion in U.S. District Court while using the recently released report from the EPA that they say details continuing widespread alleged dicamba damage in 2021.
Freese says the report also proves that the new spraying restrictions EPA required on the 2020 label are ineffective.
He says EPA is not doing its job re-registering dicamba and with no label changes for the 2022 season, especially after all the evidence they have that proves how harmful the product is. He says the farmers they represent can’t wait through more delays and so they’re asking the court to allow their lawsuit to proceed.
