John,
More than 600 million pounds of herbicides — pesticides designed to kill unwanted plants in gardens and agricultural fields — are sprayed across U.S. soils each year.
But these chemicals don’t stay put, which is bad news for endangered plants like western prairie fringed orchids, Mead’s milkweed and western lilies. And whatever threatens endangered plants may also threaten endangered animals who need them to survive — like monarch butterflies, who lay eggs on Mead’s milkweed and other milkweed species.
Speak up to help protect imperiled animals and plants from dangerous herbicides.
Glyphosate, one of the most commonly used U.S. herbicides, is likely harming almost 1,700 endangered species in the United States alone. That’s 93% of all endangered species in the country.
After years of successful legal work by the Center and our allies, the Environmental Protection Agency is finally developing a common-sense plan to protect all endangered plants — and the endangered animals who need them to survive — from chemical herbicides.
If the EPA finalizes this plan, it would create a program offering some of the most substantial protections for imperiled species from pesticides ever put into practice.
But as you might imagine, Big Agriculture isn’t taking this well. Influential, wealthy pesticide companies will do everything they can to make sure the plan fails.
The EPA needs to know you support a strong, effective plan to protect the rarest plants and animals from chemical herbicides.
