The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency refuses to release records on its decision to potentially scrap two rules that protect farm workers from harmful pesticides, two labor and environmental groups claim in a new lawsuit.
Read moreA team of biologists and entomologists are buzzing with excitement after discovering the enzymes that determine how sensitive honeybees and bumblebees are to a certain pesticide, opening the potential to create pest-control substances that aren’t deadly to bees.
Read moreA federal judge sided with environmental protection advocates and farmworker unions Wednesday, saying the Environmental Protection Agency “has created substantial risk” for delay of critical protections for people exposed to dangerous pesticides.
Read moreDespite blasting some of an epidemiologist’s opinions as “junk science,” a federal judge said Wednesday the expert’s “shaky” conclusion that the world’s most popular weed killer causes cancer could still advance more than 300 lawsuits against chemical giant Monsanto.
Read moreContinuing a week of expert testimony on the alleged link between cancer and the world’s most widely used pesticide, a scientist said Thursday he found no connection between the two in animal studies.
Read moreThe California agency that regulates farming will not be able to deploy pesticides after a judge issued an order preventing from doing so until they perform more specific environmental analysis of its effects, according to an announcement made by The Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency says it has reached a $1.2 million settlement with Amazon over the sale of illegal pesticides.
Read moreA nonprofit conservation organization claims in court that officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and Fish and Wildlife Service are stonewalling its efforts to obtain records related to an unreleased biological opinion on pesticide use on federally protected habitats.
Read moreRepublican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization’s cancer research program over its finding that the herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.
Read moreMore than 40 agricultural workers claim in Florida court that they developed debilitating illnesses from excessive exposure to toxic herbicides in Dominican sugar cane fields, where they worked long hours, in some instances for less than $10 a day.
Read moreHundreds who say they were exposed to a dangerous chemical pesticide while working at banana plantations across Latin America turned a corner Wednesday in their 25-year effort to sue Occidental Chemical Corp.
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Responding to a citizen petition to ban the key ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, the European Commission said Tuesday it finds no credible link between the chemical and health problems but would instead improve transparency in the pesticide-approval process.
Read moreDozens of conservation groups asked the federal government this week to invest at least $100 million in milkweed plants to help the monarch butterfly population, which has taken a hit due to herbicides used in the Corn Belt region of the Midwest.
Read moreTerminix will pay $9.2 million in criminal fines stemming from the company’s use of a banned pesticide that nearly killed a Delaware family vacationing in the Caribbean in March 2015, the Justice Department announced.
Read moreRegrouping from a loss in state court, Monsanto sued California in federal court Wednesday, claiming its plan to list glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup weed-killer — as a probable carcinogen is unconstitutional forced speech.
Read moreEuropean Union nations failed on Thursday to agree on the continued use of one of the world’s most widely used weed killers, glyphosate, amid concerns about its possible links to cancer.
Read moreUrinary samples from a group of older Southern Californians reveal exposure to the weed killer glyphosate has increased roughly 500 percent since the introduction of genetically modified crops.
Read moreThe European Commission said Monday a citizens’ initiative to ban one of the world’s most widely used herbicides had received more than the 1 million signatures necessary to put the issue before lawmakers.
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Approximately 75 percent of the honey sampled by researchers across the globe contains trace samples of pesticides, according to a study published Thursday.
Read moreFighting to prevent the extinction of 26 endangered species — from woodpeckers and bumblebees to frogs and dragonflies — conservationists brought a federal complaint Tuesday to vacate the registrations of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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