Explosion May 27 in China causes major damage to plant that makes precursors for chlorpyrifos, David Murray writes.

Five people have died and six others are missing after an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in Gaomi, China on 27 May.

An explosion at Shandong Youdao Chemical, a leading pesticide producer in China, resulted in five fatalities and left six ...

Terrifying footage caught the moment the worker tried to flee the shaking building as a huge tank he was standing on burst ...

A massive explosion at a chemical plant in Shandong, China, caused a fireball and smoke visible for miles. The plant is the ...

The Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions banned the controversial pesticide and other toxic compounds, but exemptions and resistance remain ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on the insecticide chlorpyrifos was arbitrary and capricious, mainly because the two-year-old decision to ban it was rushed. Consequently, the U.S ...

Another issue is simply who would sell the product. Corteva, which developed chlorpyrifos in a previous corporate incarnation, exited that part of its business in 2020. Following EPA’s decision ...

Based on the available data, retaining only these 11 food uses is expected to decrease average annual pounds of chlorpyrifos applied in the United States by 70% as compared to historical usage.

(Beyond Pesticides, October 10, 2024) On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an order allowing Kaizen Technologies LLC to sell off its chlorpyrifos-based ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially reinstated all tolerances for chlorpyrifos on February 5, 2024, undoing a prior rule that had halted chlorpyrifos use on all food and feed ...