Friend,

Dicamba is a dangerous, volatile weed killer. It can drift for miles and stay in the air for as long as 72 hours.1 Using dicamba risks damaging the health of our communities and neighboring crops -- but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still hasn't banned it.

New EPA restrictions on dicamba this summer were meant to prevent further damage. But it didn't work: There's still a lot of alarming dicamba injury to crop fields across the nation.2

The news has the EPA considering whether to change how it regulates dicamba, so now is our chance to take action in favor of a ban.3 Restricting dicamba isn't enough. A ban is the best way to keep our food and communities safe.

Send a message to the EPA calling for a ban on dangerous, drifting dicamba today.

The danger posed by drifting dicamba has been known for years. It wasn't a commonly used pesticide until Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) developed special seeds that would grow into plants able to resist it.4

Monsanto knew that dicamba would drift far from the fields it was applied to, but the company didn't see this as a problem -- it saw dollar signs. Monsanto planned to profit off farmers buying its resistant seeds just to avoid damage to their land.5

A new formulation of dicamba went to market in 2016. Farmers' fields across the country began to wither away as a result of dicamba drifting onto their land.6 And since then, damage from dicamba has even been found in towns, parks and nature preserves far from any agricultural fields -- this chemical is threatening our homes, schools and playgrounds.7

Take action to protect our farms and families from dicamba.

Independent research has shown that this pesticide could harm our health: A National Cancer Institute study found a link between dicamba use and liver and bile duct cancer.8

That's why there's no time to waste. The EPA's attempted restrictions on dicamba haven't gone far enough to stop the spread of this pesticide, and our health is at risk.

It's time to ban it now -- before anyone else's health is harmed, and before more farmers lose their crops or are forced to buy specially engineered seeds just to keep their land from being destroyed.

Send a message to the EPA to support a ban on this hazardous pesticide once and for all.

Thank you,

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. Emily Unglesbee, "EPA Eyes Dicamba Injury," DTN, September 14, 2021.
3. Emily Unglesbee, "EPA Eyes Dicamba Injury," DTN, September 14, 2021.
4. Johnathan Hettinger, "Dicamba complaints continue despite federal, state efforts," AP News, August 30, 2019.
5. Carey Gillam, "Revealed: Monsanto predicted crop system would damage US farms," The Guardian, March 30, 2020.
6. Emily Flitter, "Scant Oversight, Corporate Secrecy, Preceded U.S. Weed Killer Crisis," Reuters, August 8, 2017.
7. Jonathan Hettinger, "'We've got it everywhere': Dicamba damaging trees across Midwest and South," Wausau Pilot & Review, June 20, 2020.
8. "Dicamba use and cancer incidence in the agricultural health study: an updated analysis," International Journal of Epidemiology, May 1, 2020.