The Environmental Protection Agency says it will allow farmers to resume using chlorpyrifos insecticide on 11 crops in response to an appeals court ruling last month that the agency failed to adequately consider the safety of those uses. EPA says it will issue a proposed rule to formally revoke chlorpyrifos tolerances for all but the 11 crops: alfalfa, apple, asparagus, tart cherries, citrus, cotton, peaches, soybeans, strawberries, sugar beets and wheat. The November ruling by the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis vacated EPA regulations that revoked all tolerances for the insecticide.

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