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Experts have warned that if the EPA were to bring back dicamba, the results would be devastating—as they have been in the ...
The EPA first identified this pesticide as potentially causing harm to the thyroid in the 1990s, according to the advocacy organization the Environmental Working Group. By then, the agency ...
The EPA Banned a Pesticide That Is Dangerous for Fetuses. What to Know 4 minute read Generic stock picture of broccoli on dispaly in a supermarket. Matt Morton—PA Images/Getty Images ...
The EPA has issued an emergency order to stop the use of a pesticide that can harm fetuses — the agency's first such move in almost 40 years.
Federal law requires the EPA to evaluate both the risks and the benefits of each pesticide – and to revisit that analysis at least every 15 years for every pesticide used in the U.S.
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 ...
EPA and its internal watchdog are at odds over how officials decided a commonly used fumigant doesn’t pose as great a cancer risk as once thought. In a report today, EPA’s Office of Inspector ...
EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.
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 ...
9th Circuit rules Environmental Protection Agency failed to consider pesticide's risks to endangered species 9th Circuit remands EPA's decision and declines to vacate it (Reuters) - A federal ...
EPA Bans Dangerous Pesticide DCPA Ending the use of DCPA, which can be harmful to fetuses, is the most aggressive action taken by the agency regarding a pesticide in decades By Catherine Roberts ...