The EPA, in a brief filed Tuesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, defended its order allowing farmers to use existing stocks of dicamba herbicides this growing season.

EPA also asked the court to throw out a motion to hold the
agency in contempt.

EPA’s brief was in response to an emergency motion filed
last week by a coalition of environmental and food safety groups who were
successful in convincing the court to vacate the registrations of three dicamba
herbicides.

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