U.S. regulator aiming to allow controversial herbicide use with safeguards
(WorldNews Business)

By Tom Polansek WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is aiming to allow farmers to spray the controversial weed-killer dicamba next year, but with additional rules for its use, an official with the agency said on Tuesday. Reuben Baris, acting chief of the herbicide branch of the Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs, said the agency had not yet determined what steps it would take to mitigate problems associated with dicamba. The herbicide, which fights weeds resistant to another herbicide called glyphosate, was linked to widespread crop damage this summer. The EPA has been discussing with state regulators ways to prevent such...