Abstract
The herbicide dicamba continued to wreak havoc on nontarget agricultural crops during the 2021 growing season, despite measures to minimize drift that the US Environmental Protection Agency put in place in 2020, according to a summary of incident reports released Dec. 21. In light of the new data, the EPA is reevaluating whether dicamba can be sprayed on soybeans and cotton plants that have been genetically engineered to tolerate it without posing unreasonable risks to nontarget plants. But even if the agency decides to take action to address the alleged dicamba-drift incidents, it acknowledges that it is unlikely to implement regulations before the 2022 growing season. The EPA has been working with state agencies to investigate complaints of dicamba damage to nontolerant plants ever since it approved the use of the herbicide on genetically modified soybeans and cotton in 2016 . A coalition of environmental groups sued the EPA in
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