John,

Dicamba is a toxic weedkiller. It drifts through the air for days after it's sprayed, shriveling the plants in its wake.1 It seeps into bodies of water, and traces of it can even be found in our food.2,3

We know it's risky: Last year, a federal court banned certain uses of dicamba due to the unacceptable risks posed by its tendency to drift and spread.4

So why is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to bring dicamba back and allow farms to spray it on some crops?

We only have until Aug. 22 to tell the EPA: Don't permit the use of dangerous, drifting dicamba. Add your name.

When dicamba was first allowed to be sprayed on top of certain crops in farm fields, destruction soon followed. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research once reported more than 3,400 incidents of dicamba drift in a single year. More than a million acres of crops were damaged.5

What caused the devastation? It was dicamba doing exactly what it is designed to do: Kill plants. Only crops grown from specially engineered seeds are spared from its withering touch.

That means all other plants -- from non-specialized crops, to backyards and gardens, to forests and wildflowers -- are destroyed when dicamba drifts past.

And there's no escaping it. Dicamba becomes a gas in warm weather, remaining airborne for up to 72 hours and floating for miles.6

The EPA should not allow the use of dicamba -- especially since there are safer ways to grow our food.

Take action to protect our health and the environment from dicamba today.

The only way to stop dicamba's deadly spread is to not spray it in the first place.

We know it's terrible for plants -- and it probably isn't good for us, either. Some research has linked dicamba exposure to certain types of cancer.7

That's why we can't let this opportunity go by. The EPA is required to consider comments from the public before making its final decision about dicamba -- but they're only accepting public input until Aug. 22.

Add your name today to put a stop to this dangerous, drifting herbicide.

Thank you for speaking out against dicamba,

Faye Park
President

1. Caitlin Dewey, "This Miracle Weed Killer Was Supposed to Save Farms. Instead, It's Devastating Them," The Washington Post, August 29, 2017.
2. Johnathan Hettinger, "US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process," The Guardian, February 7, 2024.
3. "Dicamba and Dicamba BAPMA Salt: Human-Health Risk Assessment for Proposed Section 3 New Uses on Dicamba-tolerant Cotton and Soybean," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, March 29, 2016.
4. Claire Brown, "E.P.A. Proposes Allowing Use of Dicamba Weedkiller on Some Crops," The New York Times, July 23, 2025.
5. Joce Sterman and Emily Featherston, "Growing Concern: Thousands of farms across U.S. damaged by 'dicamba drift' that devastates crops," WBTV, August 1, 2022.
6. Caitlin Dewey, "This Miracle Weed Killer Was Supposed to Save Farms. Instead, It's Devastating Them," The Washington Post, August 29, 2017.
7. Johnathan Hettinger, "Dicamba has killed tens of millions of trees across the Midwest and South," The Counter, June 22, 2020.

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