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.
Your tap water may be tainted with harmful man-made chemicals that take decades to break down. In Texas, 47 water systems ...
Your tap water may be tainted with harmful man-made chemicals that take decades to break down. In Texas, 47 water systems have unacceptable levels of so-called “forever chemicals,” according ...
The ban on acephate comes a week after a ProPublica investigation highlighted the EPA’s controversial finding that the bug ...
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.
Consumer Reports contend that U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) pesticide residue tolerances are too lenient. To better evaluate potential health risks associated with various foods, Consumer ...
“Pesticides are often essential to the preservation of agriculture, but they’re also extremely dangerous to the health of farming communities,” New York Attorney General James said in a press release.
Every year, the Department of Agriculture tests a selection of domestic and imported produce for pesticide residue.