Broadcast Date: July 8, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm Central
Price: FREE for members, $49 for nonmembers
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Webinar Summary
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted in 1973 to establish protections for fish, wildlife, and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered. Approximately 40% of these species are in Hawaii alone. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently focused on developing multichemical, multispecies approaches to meeting its obligations under ESA. As a result, new strategies are redefining the process of pesticide registrations, label requirements, and grower practices. As EPA continues to develop its ESA workplans, the Public Policy Board invites you to join this webinar focused on the current status of the ESA. This webinar aims to provide an introductory knowledge for APS members to encourage members to become involved in the fungicide workplan the EPA is releasing. This webinar will also serve as a precursor to the 2025 Plant Health Meeting in Hawaii, where we will delve deeper into the specific strategies of ESA implementation and discuss its broader impact on agricultural practices and policy.
Speakers
Moderator
Karen Ferreira da Silva
Corteva Agriscience
Madeline Wade
The Brumidi Group
Speaker
Reuben Baris
Regulatory Policy Leader | Corteva Agriscience
Reuben Baris is a Regulatory Policy Leader with Corteva Agriscience where he sits on the North American Regulatory and Stewardship leadership team. Prior to joining Corteva, Reuben worked for nearly a decade and a half in the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs. His background spans a broad range of policy and technical areas including pesticide registration improvements, global harmonization, and risk assessment. Common across his professional and educational background is a central theme of agriculture rooted in his childhood growing up in rural Vermont around dairy farming and maple production.
