EPA Releases Endangered Species Herbicide Strategy

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Herbicide Strategy

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EPA Finalizes First-of-its-Kind Strategy to Protect 900 Endangered Species from Herbicides | US EPA

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EPA finalizes first-of-its-kind strategy to Protect 900 Endangered Species from Herbicides Strategy reflects extensive input of growers and other pesticide users.

Strategy identifies protections for hundreds of listed species up front and will apply to thousands of pesticide products as they go through registration or registration review.

The Biden-Harris Administration’s new approaches for protecting endangered species have resolved multiple lawsuits against EPA .

Final strategy uses the most updated information and processes to determine whether an herbicide will impact a listed species.

The strategy considers where a species lives, what it needs to survive, where the pesticide will end up in the environment.

EPA will use the strategy to inform mitigations for new active ingredient registrations and registration review of conventional herbicides.

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