The EPA banned the use of chlorpyrifos and directed North Dakota users and distributors to dispose of the product through the state pesticide disposal program. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has advised EPA that Project Safe Send does not have the resources or funding to accept large quantities of chlorpyrifos for disposal. Goehring said EPA decision made huge stocks of the product in the supply chain unusable and the agency timeline is “unreasonable.”
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