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 ...

Court approves EPA pilot pesticide program, part of ‘megasuit’ Published 2:45 pm Wednesday, September 13, 2023 By DON JENKINS Capital Press U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...

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

The groups appeared to want the court to rule on EPA’s rejection of their request to ban the pesticide, which is widely used on food crops. The EPA had found that the chemical had been linked to ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — In a win for environmental and farmworker groups, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday rolled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the use of the pesticide ...

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.

Farmworker groups, environmentalists and health organizations represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for approving the continued use of the deadly pesticide ...

More than a year after floating the idea, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted the first approval for a pesticide that’s based on a nanoscale material — a Swiss-made antimicrobial ...

In the court declaration and an interview, Donley compared the pace of the aldicarb approval to three other EPA registrations for citrus crops since 2014: two for antibiotics and one for a pesticide.

“By discounting the body of scientific evidence that shows how dangerous this pesticide is, even in small quantities, EPA is ignoring the needs of the people and communities it’s legally responsible ...