The Environmental Protection Agency moved forward with a regulatory proposal Thursday that agriculture groups said would hamstring farmers and potentially drive prices higher.
a rule Thursday introducing tight restrictions on the use of a herbicide farmers say is crucial to ensure productivity and low prices.
The agency recommended largely altering atrazine's so-called concentration equivalent level of concern from 15 parts per billion to 3.4 ppb, a move that, if finalized, would effectively force farmers to use costlier methods of weed control, agriculture industry groups said.
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