EPA bypasses scientific justification in atrazine assessment
Story Date: 6/21/2016

 

Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 6/20/16

A recent draft ecologic risk assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency greatly differs from decades of research on the most-reviewed herbicide on the market today, atrazine. The EPA draft reverses EPA research from just four years ago, and claims atrazine is suddenly harmful and poses potential chronic risk to fish, animals and plants.

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