Learn the Issues
-
EPA Proposes Registration of Nootkatone, A New Active Ingredient in Insect Control
EPA is seeking public comment on the proposed registration of a new active ingredient called nootkatone, which was discovered and developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be used as an insect repellent.
-
EPA Renews Enlist Product Registrations with New Control Measures, Providing Growers with Certainty for the 2022 Growing Season
EPA is issuing seven-year registrations for two herbicide products, Enlist Duo and Enlist One, to ensure growers have access to effective pesticide tools for the 2022 growing season.
-
Attend EPA’s Webinar about the Experimental Use Permit for the Oxitec Genetically Engineered Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
On May 5, 2021, EPA will host a webinar for the public to learn about the approval of an experimental use permit (EUP) to allow Oxitec Ltd. to field test the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes as a way to reduce mosquito populations.
-
EPA Addresses Ecological Risks Posed by Four Pyridines and Pyrimidines Herbicides
EPA is releasing a proposed interim decision for picloram and interim decisions for clopyralid, dithiopyr and triclopyr to address ecological risks.
-
EPA Announces Opportunity to Nominate Additional Experts to Serve as Ad Hoc Members for the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Reviewing Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling
EPA is announcing opportunities to nominate additional experts as ad hoc members to FIFRA SAP reviewing physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling
-
EPA Proposes Action to Protect Soybeans from Major Agricultural Pest
EPA is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register Cry14Ab-1, a new plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) product that acts against the soybean cyst nematode.
-
EPA Solicits Proposals for the Field Implementation Meeting Support Cooperative Agreement
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs is soliciting applications for cooperative agreements to manage a Field Implementation Meetings Support program. EPA expects to provide up to $500,000 annually, depending on the Agency’s budget, for a total of
-
Updated Human Health Risk Analyses for Chlorpyrifos
EPA has revised the human health hazard assessment and drinking water exposure assessment for chlorpyrifos that supported our October 2015 proposal to revoke all food residue tolerances for chlorpyrifos.
-
Children's Environmental Health: A Workshop on Future Priorities for Environmental Health Sciences
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a free, virtual public workshop to discuss the state of science and knowledge about children's environmental health.
-
Scientific Advisory Panel to Meet on Cancer Potential of Glyphosate (rescheduled meeting)
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) has been rescheduled and will meet December 13-16, 2016 on the cancer potential of glyphosate
-
EPA Grants Extension of Experimental Use Permit for ‘Wolbachia Mosquito’
EPA has approved and expanded an existing experimental use permit (EUP) for Wolbachia pipientis-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
-
Federal Interagency Working Group to Hold Public Meeting on Endangered Species Pesticide Issues
IWG is holding a public listening session on January 27, 2022, to hear stakeholder perspectives on improving the Endangered Species Act (ESA) section 7 consultation process for federal pesticide decisions.
-
EPA Awards Oregon State University with the National Pesticide Information Center Cooperative Agreement
EPA has awarded a cooperative agreement to Oregon State University (OSU) to support the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC).
-
Nominations to the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Open until April 21, 2017
Nominations to the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Open until April 21, 2017
-
EPA Issues Advisory on Disinfectants Making False and Misleading COVID-19 Claims
This week, EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance released a compliance advisory on products claiming to kill SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
-
EPA Proposes Registration of Picarbutrazox, a New Fungicide Active Ingredient
EPA is proposing to register the new active ingredient picarbutrazox, which represents a new tool for managing resistant fungi.
-
New EPA Guidance for Testing Pesticides Will Reduce Animal Testing
EPA is issuing guidance for requesting waivers of acute dermal toxicity testing requirements for pesticide formulations, which will lead to fewer animal tests for acute dermal toxicity for pesticides.
-
Reporting Unintended Exposure and Harm from Pesticides (Incidents)
Pesticides incidents must be reported by pesticide registrants. Others, such as members of the public and environmental professionals, would like to report pesticide incidents. This website will facilitate such incident reporting.
-
EPA Halts Acceptance of Data for Pesticide Registration from a Non-compliant Laboratory
The EPA is seeking public comment on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s opinion for the insecticides carbaryl and methomyl.
-
EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessments and Proposes Mitigation for Residential Fumigation Using Sulfuryl Fluoride
EPA is taking the next step in the registration review process for the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride by releasing draft risk assessments for public comment.