Announcement Comes Despite Federal Courts Twice Banning Pesticide for Causing Unprecedented Widespread Damage to Crops and Communities ...

The EPA announced Wednesday its plan to re-register dicamba, a herbicide widely used on soybean and cotton farms that has been banned twice by federal courts.

In 2022, the Ohio EPA described Chillicothe’s Pixelle paper mill closing as “worst-case scenario” in the fight to contain a toxic underground plume. Now, that fear is coming true.