A coalition of environmental and conservation organizations has filed a federal court petition seeking to halt the agricultural use of dicamba herbicide on cotton and soybean crops.
The National Family Farm Coalition and Center for Food Safety, along with other advocacy groups, are challenging three recently approved product labels in their legal filing. The organizations argue that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to comply with requirements outlined in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act during the approval process.
The lawsuit specifically targets the EPA’s authorization for over-the-top dicamba applications, a farming practice where the herbicide is sprayed directly over crops that have been genetically modified to resist the chemical.
