SENATORS DISCUSS PESTICIDE REGISTRATION STRUGGLES WITH EPA ADMINISTRATOR REGAN

Statement

U.S. Senators Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS), Chuck Grassley (IA), Mike Braun (IN), and Joni Ernst (IA), held a Zoom Call earlier this week with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and EPA officials to discuss the problematic direction EPA is head with decisions that restrict access to safe and necessary crop protection products. Senators Marshall, Grassley, Braun, and Ernst issued this joint statement following the call:

"Crop protection products play a crucial role in U.S. food production yet are a common target of this Administration. These products are essential for farmers to leave their land and world cleaner, healthier, and safer than they found it. As such, we must keep up the fight for our farmers so they have access to affordable pesticides and herbicides. If the EPA restricts some of the most widely used and basic weed and pest control products then our food production will be set back decades and will all but eliminate agriculture's ability to store carbon in our soil. EPA has been working on several registration-related items in the pesticides office dealing with dicamba, glyphosate, chlorpyrifos, and the triazine herbicides but we don't think that EPA is sufficiently engaged with USDA, the registrants, and growers to fully understand what the implications of those decisions can be."