"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 ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Federal regulators have until September 2023 to determine whether the pesticide they approved eight years ago puts endangered species at risk, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday, balking ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

In 1970, the newly formed EPA took over responsibility for pesticides. ... If the agency determines that the benefits outweigh the risks, the EPA approves the pesticide for sale and use in the U.S.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...