EPA Takes Aim at Atrazine Again
Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency reopened the finalized reregistration of atrazine. The EPA proposes an extremely low ecological level of concern value for atrazine of just 3.4 parts per billion, down from the scientifically proven 15 parts per billion, according to Gary Marshall, Triazine Network Co-Chair and retired Missouri Corn Growers Association CEO.
“In 2019, the EPA agreed to re-register the product. And now the new administration came in two years after the fact because of a lawsuit generated by some of the anti-agricultural organizations around the country, sued the EPA over the reregistration, and the EPA did something unprecedented. They decided to go back and reopen what we thought was already a closed reregistration process.”
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“In 2019, the EPA agreed to re-register the product. And now the new administration came in two years after the fact because of a lawsuit generated by some of the anti-agricultural organizations around the country, sued the EPA over the reregistration, and the EPA did something unprecedented. They decided to go back and reopen what we thought was already a closed reregistration process.”
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