In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity, chemical giant BASF has agreed to stop the manufacture and sale of the pesticide trifludimoxazin, according a court filing today.
BASF’s decision to pull the pesticide from the market follows the conservation groups’ December 2021 filings seeking to have the federal court overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s registration of the dangerous pesticide and immediately remove it from the market. The agency failed to assess the herbicide’s risk to protected plants and animals, as required by the Endangered Species Act, according to the lawsuit.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal officials on Tuesday declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status, but said no action would be taken for several years because