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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 proposal would end the use of the widely used pesticide, which has been linked to nervous system damage, on all but 11 crops. EPA will give the public an additional 30 days to comment on a ...

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.

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(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 ...