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EPA let Bayer choose its own dicamba regulations, documents reveal

Internal EPA records show the agency solicited Bayer's preferred level of protections for the drift-prone herbicide and adopted the company's least protective choices.

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What to know

  • EPA documents reveal the agency asked Bayer to select its preferred level of protections for dicamba, then incorporated the company's least protective choices into federal rules.
  • Dicamba has damaged millions of acres of farmland since 2016 and is linked to cancer; courts have twice ordered it off the market for drift problems, yet the EPA has re-approved it with fewer protections than before.
  • The EPA's top four toxics office positions are held by former chemical industry leaders, including a former pesticide lobbyist now overseeing the pesticides program.

“It becomes troublesome when the EPA allows them to regulate themselves by choosing the mitigations.”

Nathan Donley, Environmental health science director, Center for Biological Diversity · The Guardian ↗ · Sep 19

Bayer Pesticide manufacturerEnvironmental Protection Agency Federal regulatorNathan Donley Environmental health science director, Center for Biological DiversityKyle Kunkler Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA toxics officeCenter for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety Litigants

EPA let Bayer choose its own dicamba regulations, documents reveal
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Sep 21yesterdaytodaynow · 11:12 PM ET
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    EPA defends process, saying regulatory system is working as intended

    An EPA spokesperson responds to the Guardian, characterizing the agency's engagement with Bayer as standard regulatory practice. The statement asserts the process is not a compliance failure but the system functioning as designed, with companies permitted to submit mitigation ideas to preserve product utility.

    “Make no mistake: this is not a compliance failure; it is the regulatory system working exactly as intended.”
    — EPA spokesperson
    • DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social

      Donald Trump’s hand-picked EPA administrator oversaw a process that let chemical giant Bayer choose its own regulatory framework for a controversial weedkiller. Newly released internal EPA documents show that Bayer was offered a choice from a menu of regulation options for their twice-banned weedkiller dicamba. # TrumpMustGo # KingOfTreason #…

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    • Barbramon1@mas.to

      EPA allows Bayer to choose the dicamba regulations that it prefers. Besides posing dangers to human health, dicamba tends to drift away from targeted fields. It affects crops and trees and its "drift" has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to crops and forestry. Despite this crisis, EPA is allowing Bayer to regulate itself. #…

      Barbramon1@mas.toMastodon3d ago11▲view on Mastodon ↗
    • Incognitim@mastodon.social

      # Dicamba (linked to liver cancer & Non-Hodgkin lymphoma) is drift prone & kills vegetation & crops for miles. Courts took it off the market twice, but the # EPA re-approved it. Experts found its drift damage to be the WORST in the history of US agriculture. Still, the current approval provides FEWER protections than past approvals. an EPA…

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    EPA internal documents show Bayer selected its own regulation level for dicamba — The Guardian reports on newly released internal EPA records revealing the agency presented Bayer with a menu of regulatory options for dicamba—ranging from more to less protective—and asked the company to choose which restrictions it wanted. Bayer selected the least protective option for one regulation and the middle level for another, and the EPA incorporated these choices into the proposed federal rule.

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  1. 3 outlets US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

    first by The Guardian, 3d ago · also Guardian Environment, Guardian

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