经过三年多的动荡，麦草畏的应用在美国不再合法， Jackie Pucci 报道 CropLife.
周五晚上，美国环境保护署 issued a statement that it was “disappointed” 在美国第九巡回上诉法院 6 月 3 日史无前例的裁决中 取消麦草畏的注册 在大豆和棉花上过度使用。链接了 56 页的裁决 （链接在这里）.
美国环保署署长安德鲁惠勒说：“2020 年的生长季节正在顺利进行，这给我们的第一批环保主义者——农民带来了不应有的负担。自法院发表意见以来，EPA 已被全国农民的来信和电话淹没，这些证词引用了这一决定对他们的农作物造成的破坏以及对美国粮食供应的威胁。法院本身在该命令中指出，它将给美国农民带来巨大困难。这项裁决涉及数百万英亩的农作物，农民已经花费的数百万美元，以及全国各地美国人赖以养家糊口的食物和纤维。”
Wheeler added that EPA is “assessing all avenues to mitigate the impact of the Court’s decision on farmers.”
The Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association, the ag trade group representing the No. 1 soybean-producing state in the nation, remarked that is “highly unusual” for a pesticide registration to be vacated immediately.
“Even when labels are cancelled, there is a process that EPA follows and it includes instructions from EPA to the states and to the industry for the cancellation to ensue,” IFCA President Jean Payne said. IFCA reached out to the Illinois Department of Agriculture, which has pesticide regulatory authority in Illinois, for guidance on the ramifications of the court ruling on use of the three products in Illinois.
“The suddenness of the Court ruling has caused much confusion, and we apologize (to our members) that IFCA had no clear guidance to provide until IDA was able to make that determination,” Payne said, adding, “Whatever we surmised outside of IDA’s guidance could be construed as a ‘stop’ or a ‘keep going’ message, when we have no idea which is correct. IDA was also caught off guard by this ruling and had to carefully determine the best steps in which to respond knowing of the serious implications for the industry.”
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