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Bayer asks EPA to again approve twice-banned weed killer #dicamba for use on #GMO crops. Farmers not planting the dicamba-tolerant GMO crops have registered thousands of complaints across multiple key farming states about dicamba damage. www.thenewlede.org/2024/05/baye...

Bayer asks EPA to again approve twice-banned weed killer

​​After multiple court-ordered bans, Bayer AG is once again asking the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve the controversial weed killer dicamba for use on genetically modified crops, ...

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Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Action Network @pesticideaction.bsky.social

The biggest issue with dicamba products is that they volatilize (become a vapor) after application and then drift to fields that are not populated with dicamba tolerant crops.

Liza Gross
Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social

Weedkillers used on crops engineered to resist them are killing trees across Missouri and Illinois, bit.ly/47jvZ4o. Who could have predicted an inherently volatile #herbicide like #dicamba would drift and harm nontarget plants? The scientists who warned #EPA not to register #dicamba. bit.ly/3SsBDwF

Scientists warned this weed killer would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway - Reveal

The agency based its decision on “shockingly insufficient” company studies. Now millions of dollars in soybeans and other crops have been destroyed.

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Dicamba: Bayer pede à EPA que aprove novamente herbicida duplamente banido.
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Dicamba: Bayer pede à EPA que aprove novamente herbicida duplamente banido

Por Jonathan Hettinger para o "The New Lede"  Depois de várias proibições ordenadas pelo tribunal, a Bayer AG está mais uma vez solicitando à Agência de Proteção Ambiental dos EUA (EPA) que aprove o c...

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Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Action Network @pesticideaction.bsky.social

While the February 6 court decision directed that the use of dicamba be halted for over-the-top applications on soybeans and cotton, the EPA is allowing the use of existing stock of dicamba under the old use-label guidelines for the 2024 growing season.
www.panna.org/news/dicamba...

Good news, bad news: dicamba use halted, not halted | Pesticide Action Network (PAN)

A February 6 court decision directed that the use of dicamba be halted for over-the-top (OTT) applications on soybeans and cotton. However, the EPA is allowing the use of existing stock of dicamba und...

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Liza Gross
Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social

Weedkillers used on crops engineered to resist them are killing trees in forests across Missouri and Illinois, bit.ly/47jvZ4o. Who could have predicted a volatile #herbicide like #dicamba would drift and harm nontarget plants? The scientists who warned #EPA not to register #dicamba. bit.ly/3SsBDwF 🧪

Scientists warned this weed killer would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway - Reveal

The agency based its decision on “shockingly insufficient” company studies. Now millions of dollars in soybeans and other crops have been destroyed.

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Cedar
Cedar @cedarcat.bsky.social

I've seen people talk about this like "All crops are GMO, stop your anti-GMO whining" & like thats not why I'm anti GMO. GMO crops aren't any worse for you than organic crops and would be really cool if it didn't let corps copywrite dna sequences & sue small farmers whos crops get pollinated by GMO.

Progressive Seeker
Progressive Seeker @progseeker.bsky.social

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Federal Dicamba Ruling Called 'Vital Victory for Farmers and the Environment'

"The court today resoundingly reaffirmed what we have always maintained: The EPA's and Monsanto's claims of dicamba's safety were irresponsible and unlawful," said one plaintiff.

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KrisztinaStar (Kristen)
KrisztinaStar (Kristen) @krisztinastar.bsky.social

“We’ve never observed anything on this scale since we’ve been using pesticides in the modern era.” 👀 #dicamba www.thenewlede.org/2024/04/an-h...

An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice

By Bill Freese In early February, something rather extraordinary happened in the world of American farming. For the second time, a federal court banned the hazardous herbicide dicamba, which has been...

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Krasnov 🌱
Krasnov 🌱 @greennomad61.bsky.social


"US court this week banned three weedkillers widely used in American agriculture...Environmental Protection Agency (.@EPA) broke the law in allowing them to be on the market."

#dicamba
#Bayer (Monsanto)
#BASF
#Syngenta
#Roundup

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta

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Sparrow / Liz
Sparrow / Liz @untonuggan.bsky.social

I mean I'm anti-GMO just from the perspective that I don't think Monsanto should be able to copyright seeds and then sue farmers whose crops may have potentially cross pollinated with their GMO crops

Michael
Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social

Bayer Seeks Reapproval of Pesticide That Federal Courts Have Twice Banned for Causing Widespread Damage to Crops and Communities www.commondreams.org/newswire/bay...

EUROPE SAYS
EUROPE SAYS @europesays.bsky.social

An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice: For the second time, a federal court banned the hazardous herbicide dicamba

https://www.europesays.com/1140990/

An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice: For the second time, a federal court banned…

An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice: For the second time, a federal court banned the hazardous herbicide dicamba

An herbicide so hazardous that courts have banned it twice: For the second time, a federal court banned

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oldcoot
oldcoot @theoldcoot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

#weedkillers
#dicamba

US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta

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Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social

US court bans three #weedkillers and finds #EPA broke law in approval process - www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Ruling, specific to three #dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta"

US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta

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Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Action Network @pesticideaction.bsky.social

In a sweeping victory for family farmers and dozens of endangered plants and animals, a federal court today revoked approval of the notoriously volatile, weed-killing pesticide dicamba. 
www.panna.org/news/federal...

Federal court halts use of dicamba across millions of acres of cotton and soybeans | Pesticide Action Network (PAN)

A federal court cancelled dicamba's over-the-top use on soybeans and cotton, holding that EPA violated FIFRA's public input requirement prior to the approval. The court outlined the damage to growers that do not use over-the-top dicamba and suffered significant financial losses and repeatedly caused landscape-level damage.

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Red State Liberal
Red State Liberal @heartlandliberal.bsky.social

US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF, other corporate behemoths

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta

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Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry
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Bayer Seeks Reapproval of Pesticide That Federal Courts Have Twice Banned for Causing Widespread Damage to Crops and Communities – Common Dreams | #Toxic #Pesticide | MORE at EcoSearch

Feral Farmer
Feral Farmer @feralfarmer.bsky.social

Some good news.
“US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process
Ruling, specific to three dicamba-based weedkillers, is major blow to Bayer, BASF and Syngenta“

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

d'Artagnan
d'Artagnan @dartagnantt.bsky.social

Tonight in #DnD: We invent magical GMO crops #TTRPG

☀️ Starshine
☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social

Yeah the anti gmo crowd is wild, Sri lanka tried all organic non gmo crops and it did not end uh well

Auld Dick
Auld Dick @dwinx49r.bsky.social

Considering that the germ from GMO crops planted in an open field and is soon dispersed, by natural means, "into the wild" to interact with non-GMO crops. I'm not sure that they can be avoided.

Tamar Haspel
Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social

Genetic modification is a tool, and is increasingly being used for good to create nutritious, hardy, higher-yielding, public-domain varieties for the world's poorest.

Herbicide-tolerance (esp. dicamba) has been a problem!

Don't let that prevent support for these crops.

Xepher
Xepher @xepher.bsky.social

I have never understood the anti-GMO people. Humans have been altering and creating hybrid crops for centuries.

Gloomy Gus
Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social

GMO crops, better known as "every single crop for the past two thousand years"