The lawyer who helped ban chlorpyrifos on food crops warns that the EPA decision creates obstacles to banning other dangerous pesticides. Goldman brought the case against EPA on behalf of the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

After a court overturned a ban, the agency has proposed restricting chlorpyrifos to 11 food crops, illustrating the limits of federal regulation. By Roni Caryn Rabin Almost 25 years after federal ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to prohibit use of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos on food, except for critical uses on 11 food and feed crops, the agency announced Dec. 2 ...

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 ...