CFS et al v. EPA
Groups sue the EPA for approving Dow AgroScience’s herbicide Enlist Duo, a mixture of glyphosate and 2,4-D, which are highly toxic, to be sprayed directly on GMO corn, soybean, and cotton plants that are genetically engineered by Dow specifically to survive exposure to the pesticide. The 2014 registration allowed Enlist Duo to be used in six states. On 3/31/2015, EPA amended the 2014 registration to include nine additional states. The lawsuits challenging the 2014 registration were amended to challenge EPA’s 2015 actions along with the initial 2014 registration on 4/20/2015. EPA asked the court to vacate the registration of Enlist Duo and send it back to EPA so the agency could redo the registration process with the new data collected by Dow about Enlist Duo that EPA had not considered in its 2014 decision. The court agreed, vacating the 2014 and 2015 decisions and sending the Enlist Duo registration back to EPA for further review.