"Pesticides: Spurned by EPA, Groups Take Chlorpyrifos Fight To Court"
"Environmentalists asked a federal court today to compel U.S. EPA to take action on a common farm pesticide linked to children's health risks."
Source: Greenwire, 04/06/2017
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"USDA Drops Plan To Test For Monsanto Weed Killer In Food"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and the key ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup herbicides."
Source: USRTK/Huffington Post, 03/28/2017
"Hundreds of North American Bee Species Face Extinction: Study"
"More than 700 of the 4,000 native bee species in North America and Hawaii are believed to be inching toward extinction due to increased pesticide use leading to habitat loss, a scientific study showed on Wednesday."
Source: Reuters, 03/02/2017
"As Trump’s EPA Takes Shape, Here’s Your Pesticide Cheat Sheet"
"In the final weeks and months of the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pesticide Programs issued a flurry of reports on some of the country’s most widely used pesticides. Decisions made on the basis of these environmental and health assessments will likely determine the level of pesticide residue allowed on the food we eat. They will affect children’s neurological health and development, particularly in agricultural communities. They will determine how farmworkers are protected from pesticide exposures. And they will affect the fate of threatened and endangered species across the country."
Source: Civil Eats, 02/06/2017
"Pesticides: Court Reverses Key Part Of Challenge To EPA Registrations"
"A federal appeals court [Thursday] breathed new life into a challenge by environmental groups to U.S. EPA's registration of nearly 400 pesticides."
Source: Greenwire, 02/03/2017
"Will Better Science Help Protect Us from Chemical Exposures?"
"A new National Academy of Sciences' risk assessment could accelerate public health protection from pesticides."
Source: Civil Eats, 01/18/2017
"A Bumblebee Gets New Protection on Obama’s Way Out"
"The Obama administration, rushing to secure its environmental legacy, has increased protection for a humble bumblebee."
Source: NY Times, 01/11/2017
"Scientists Loved and Loathed by an Agrochemical Giant"
"With corporate funding of research, 'there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.'"
Source: NY Times, 01/03/2017
"Trump EPA Transition Team Lacks Expertise on Chemicals, Water"
"President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency includes some of the Obama administration’s biggest foes on climate and energy policy. But what appears to be absent from the nine members of the EPA transition team is any background in chemicals, pesticides, water pollution, and other policy areas where the agency enforces environmental laws to control contamination and protect public health."
Source: BNA, 12/23/2016
Pesticide Is Prohibited in Britain. Why Is It Still Being Exported?
"Paraquat, one of many pesticides that can’t be used in Europe but is sold in the United States and elsewhere, has been linked to Parkinson’s disease in a growing body of research."
Source: NY Times, 12/21/2016
