EPA believes the current pesticide approval system has major setbacks that make the process “unsustainable and legally tenuous.” It currently has nearly 20 years of work to complete in pending ...

Dicamba drift has damaged millions of acres of soybeans, and caused devastating damage to farms, home gardens, native plants and wildlife refuges throughout the Midwest and South. Experts have found ...

In July the EPA reapproved the pesticide’s registration for another 15 years. Farmworker groups, environmentalists and health organizations represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental ...

Experts have warned that if the EPA were to bring back dicamba, the results would be devastating—as they have been in the ...

"Hopefully this ruling helps push the EPA to finally take seriously its obligation to protect imperiled plants, pollinators and animals from the pesticides it approves." Streptomycin sulfate is used ...

A federal court on Tuesday rejected environmental groups' attempts to overturn a decision by President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency to allow the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The ...

EPA phased out a toxic pesticide in 2010. Before Trump left office, it was approved for Florida citrus.

The EPA already considers spray drift during routine reviews, but historically those reviews have happened 15 years after a pesticide was approved by the agency.

The case kicked off in 2019 after EPA determined that sulfoxaflor could be applied to crops it was not originally approved for, like cotton and sorghum (E&E News PM, Sept. 6, 2019).

HeiQ Materials. HeiQ CEO Carlo Centonze said in a statement that the company is “ pleased that that EPA has recognized the potential benefits provided by HeiQ AGS-20.”He said the EPA ’s approval came ...

In July the EPA reapproved the pesticide’s registration for another 15 years. “This paraquat registration puts EPA on the wrong side of science, history and the law,” said Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, ...