"The agency’s actions come amid anger over a Supreme Court decision in a glyphosate case and despite an executive order in support of regenerative agriculture."
"Less than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting regenerative agriculture practices that he said would “reduce overall use” of chemical pesticides, his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a flurry of controversial approvals.
On June 30, regulators approved four new pesticides—three of which qualify as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” based on an international definition—and expanded the use of two other chemicals.
The actions represented “the single biggest mass approval of pesticides I’ve ever seen,” said Nathan Donley, the environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, who has followed EPA pesticide policy closely for many years.
“Waiting to open the floodgates on new pesticide approvals until after the Supreme Court granted immunity to pesticide companies takes a special kind of callousness,” Donley said in a statement, referring to a June 25 decision where the Court sided with Bayer and the Trump administration in a case related to cancer risk and Roundup."
