The US EPA is proposing a new registration for new over-the-top (OTT) dicamba uses on dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton. Their own Draft Ecological Risk Assessment acknowledges significant risks to non-target organisms, including listed species, yet relies on unproven, unenforceable, and entirely inadequate mitigations to justify these registrations. In short, EPA is proposing to register volatile herbicides that have caused and will cause landscape-wide harm to wild and cultivated plants if approved. All by leaning on mitigation measures it cannot demonstrate will work at a landscape scale and that are virtually unenforceable.
Over the past decade, PRN and our partners have consistently raised concerns about the ecological, economic, and social harms caused by widespread use of these volatile herbicides.
TELL USEPA TO NOT REGISTER THESE NEW FORMULATIONS OF DICAMBA BY AUGUST 22nd!
Please join us in strongly opposing re-registration of these over-the-top herbicides, given the clear evidence of landscape-level damage and likelihood of harm to sensitive crops and natural plant communities.
Help us stop this unnecessary registration of a harmful pesticide and urge EPA to withdraw this proposal immediately by submitting a public comment through the USFWS Portal – we have instructions and a sample comment below. The deadline for comments is August 22nd.
How to submit a public comment through the USFWS Portal in Regulations.gov:
- Copy the suggested comment below and click this link to access the portal.
- No need to attach a file unless you are submitting a personalized comment.
- Submit your email address
- Select your identity (suggested: Individual unless you are representing an organization.)
- Complete the contact information fields that populate.
- Click the I’m not a robot checkbox and hit submit comment
Sample Comment to Copy and Paste into the USFWS Portal:
I am writing to strongly oppose the US EPA’s proposal to register new over-the-top (OTT) dicamba uses on dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton. Dicamba herbicides have wreaked havoc over the past decade and pose significant risks to non-target organisms, including state and federal listed species. The proposed registration relies on unproven, unenforceable, and entirely inadequate mitigations. In short, EPA is proposing to register volatile herbicides that have caused and will again cause landscape-wide harm to wild and cultivated plants.
I strongly oppose re-registration of these over-the-top herbicides, given the clear evidence of landscape-level damage and likelihood of harm to sensitive crops and natural plant communities. We urge EPA to withdraw this proposal.
I appreciate your consideration.
