For more than a decade, chlorpyrifos has come under fire by activist groups which petitioned the EPA to revoke all tolerances of the organophosphate. The agency did not revoke the tolerances. Appeals followed, and litigation started against the agency for denying the groups' petition, which at the time the agency said failed to meet the legal burden under the law for EPA to revoke chlorpyrifos.
 
That was then. This is now. Chlorpyrifos has been in limbo for many years. The supply dwindling. The latest chapter of this tale, you could say, dropped mid-August, when the EPA, following the most-recent court orders, issued its final intent to revoke chlorpyrifos.
 
U.S. agriculture is committed to creating and supplying safe food, and science has been the tailwind for that commitment for decades.  U.S. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act guides EPA's efforts. As it is now, FIFRA is the gold standard, science-heavy approach for pesticide regulatory actions and should remain so. But it has come under fire as of late, too.
 
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