Source: Emily Unglesbee, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 6/17/20

EPA defended its decision to allow farmers to continue to use three vacated dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia -- and asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out a motion filed to hold the federal agency in contempt. That emergency motion was filed last week by a group of farm and environmental organizations that had successfully brought a lawsuit against EPA, which resulted in a panel of judges on the Ninth Circuit vacating the three registrations on June 3.

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