Tag Archives: pesticides

In a sharp rebuke, a new report by a key scientific advisory panel concluded that the pesticides office at the Environmental Protection Agency failed...

Two United Nations experts are calling Tuesday for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming,...

The Vietnamese government has officially announced a ban on Syngenta’s paraquat, a highly hazardous pesticide (HHP) and Dow Chemicals’  2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic...

Scientists at the University of York in England have discovered for the first time that the sequence of exposure to pesticides and pollutants significantly...

French children will soon be able to frolic in the grass without risk of intoxication. Source: bigstory.ap.org Pesticides will be banned in all public...

As American gather their families to share a Thanksgiving meal this week, new government data offers a potentially unappetizing assessment of the U.S....

The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that safety tests conducted by the chemical industry and used by regulators to assess the dangers of pesticides...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decisions Friday on whether federal and Hawai‘i state laws preempt Hawai‘i counties’...

Ignoring the legal requirement to examine threats to endangered species, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Wednesday the use of the dangerously...

NGOs across Europe have enthusiastically applauded the decision by Italy’s Ministry of Health on Friday to place a number of restrictions on the use...