Public Health Groups Dispute EPA Approval of BASF Herbicide (1)

The EPA’s approval of BASF Corp.'s new herbicide left out considerations of endangered species and their habitats, environmental and public safety advocates said in a petition in the Ninth Circuit.

The Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to set aside the Environmental Protection Agency’s unconditional registration of trifludimoxazin and BASF’s Tirexor herbicide. The court should also stop the use and sale of those products, the groups said.

Trifludimoxazin is an active ingredient in herbicides meant to manage broadleaf and grass weeds. Tirexor is an herbicide that contains ...