Pesticide maker Bayer Crop Science has asked EPA to again let farmers use the weedkiller dicamba, which the agency partly banned after a lawsuit earlier this year.

WASHINGTON— Pesticide-maker Bayer has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to re-approve the dangerous pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered cotton and soybeans.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s timeline for reviewing a new dicamba label submitted by Bayer could mean growers won’t be able to use the herbicide next year.

The agency cited evidence that acephate harms workers who apply the chemical and others through contaminated water.

The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday that will end many uses of the highly toxic, cancer-causing ...

Against the guidance of scientists, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to cancel the use of the pesticide acephate, for all but one use case, according to a Tuesday news release.

On April 2, the Iowa Senate passed Senate File 2412, a bill that would grant immunity to pesticide companies from ... should be able to trust the EPA label as enough protection, and second ...

S tung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three ...

While that is true, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) requires the EPA to apply extra protection when science doesn’t conclusively show that a pesticide is safe for infants and children.

And in March, the EPA released a draft assessment of another pesticide in the same class, malathion, that also proposes loosening restrictions based on similar tests. The proposed relaxing of ...