Announcements and Schedules
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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.
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Comment Period Extended for Manufacturer-Requested Risk Evaluation for Fragrance Ingredient
Listserv announcing the extension of the comment period for a fragrance ingredient
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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.
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EPA Announces Environmental Justice Consultations on Risk Management Rulemakings for Methylene Chloride and 1-Bromopropane
Announcement of consultations with environmental justice communities on risk management for methylene chloride and 1-bromopropane.
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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
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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.
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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.
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EPA Updates Policy to Include All Exposures in Review of New Chemicals Under TSCA
this page has info on the release of a supplemental proposed rule on adding DINP to the TRI
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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
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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.
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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.
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EPA Releases Updated Data for 2021 Toxics Release Inventory Reporting
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the updated 2021 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data about chemical releases, chemical waste management, and pollution prevention activities that took place between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Nominations to the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Open until April 21, 2017
Nominations to the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Open until April 21, 2017
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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.
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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.
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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.