Farmworker advocates squared off with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before a remote Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday, arguing the agency’s persistent allowance of the use of pesticide chlorpyrifos is illegal and hurting the neurological development of children.
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A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, finding the agency must take a second look at whether a glyphosate-based herbicide harms monarch butterflies.
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Chemical giant Bayer said it will reconsider a plan to resolve future litigation related to the toxicity of the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, after a federal judge expressed concerns about the “propriety and fairness” of a portion of the proposed $10 billion settlement.
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In the war to control malaria, disease-spreading mosquitoes are fighting back.
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BayerAG will pay $10 billion to resolve a raft of litigation over its herbicides, including claims that its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit dealt a blow to chemical company Monsanto Wednesday when it vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the controversial pesticide dicamba, saying the agency failed to properly assess the risks of its widespread chemical use.
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With factories and farms silenced by the coronavirus shutdown, Albania’s bees have been busier than ever, stirring excitement among farmers expecting an unparalleled honey harvest thanks to a respite from pollution and pesticides.
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The European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday to protect biodiversity across the 27-nation bloc while building a more sustainable food system, insisting on the need to both reduce the use of pesticides and promote organic farming.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Two Dutch disinfection companies were Wednesday found liable for a 2017 tainted egg scandal that
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The toxin, a chemical relative of sarin gas used as a chemical weapon in World War II, has been linked to developmental problems in children.
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A Ninth Circuit panel heard oral argument Tuesday in a case involving the legality of dicamba, a pesticide farmers say is necessary to kill noxious weeds but environmentalists claim ravages ecology.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of cattle owners’ claim for damages against the federal government relating to the loss of livestock during a temporary fever tick quarantine. The owners claimed the government negligently rounded up the cattle using chutes and roping, and improperly applied an insecticide. The claims are barred by the quarantine exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act, the court ruled.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop using pesticides on mammals and limit the use of
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Nearly wiped out by agricultural pesticides in the 1950s, Louisiana’s state bird the brown pelican has made a tremendous comeback. Now, thanks to 150,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand and help from $18.7 million of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for the catastrophic oil spill a decade ago, one of the pelicans’ essential nesting grounds is also coming back.
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The manufacturer of a commonly used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children will stop making the chemical this year.
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Fireflies around the world are at risk of extinction due in part to habitat loss, pesticides and shockingly, artificial sources of light, according to new research released Tuesday.
Read moreBet you never tried killing aphids with cough medicine. Research published Wednesday isolated 10 new insect-killing compounds from bai bu, an herb long used by traditional Chinese medicine to treat everything from dry coughs to lice.
Read moreScientists have conducted the first successful field release experiment of a genetically modified moth that could fundamentally change how crops are protected from pests.
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The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California’s coast remains critically low for the second year in a row, a count by an environmental group released Thursday showed.
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