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Demonstrators stand next to tractors, as farmers block the AP-7 highway during a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe, near Girona, Spain, February 6, 2024. Photo by Albert Gea/Reuters

Economy Feb 06

EU scraps pesticide proposal in another concession to protesting farmers

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

Economy Apr 29

Appeals court tells EPA to ban pesticide or decide it’s safe

The court says the EPA had delayed acting on the widely used bug-killer chlorpyrifos for nearly 14 years. The EPA has been ordered to act within 60 days.

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Nation Jul 12

EPA to allow pesticide seen as threat to bees

The Environmental Protection Agency is reversing a ban on the use of Dow AgroSciences' sulfoxaflor.

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

Nation May 08

California to ban pesticide said to harm child development

The pesticide is in a class of organophosphates chemically similar to a nerve gas developed by Nazi Germany before World War II.

By Brian Melley, Associated Press

Health May 06

Neonicotinoids are pesticides that target insects’ nervous systems with lethal efficiency but are thought to be less toxic to vertebrates. But elevated levels of neonicotinoids in deer appear to be associated with birth defects. Photo by Larry Smith/via Flickr/CC BY 2.0
Safety concerns mount over neonicotinoid pesticides in unexpected places

As scientists discover neonicotinoid pesticides in unexpected locations and associated with health problems, a growing body of research challenges the assumption these are safer and less likely to spread than other types of pesticide.

By Jim Daley, Scientific American

Oct 10

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What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use

By Miles O'Brien

Citrus growers hope to fend off fruit-munching katydids, but one weapon is under scrutiny. Researchers found that children growing up near fields where the insecticide chlorpyrifos was deployed exhibited autism-like symptoms. A court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban…

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Aug 29

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The EPA isn’t taking its own advice on a pesticide that causes brain damage in children

By Miles O'Brien

After decades of research and debate, the EPA was on the cusp of banning all use of chlorpyrifos, a poison that attacks the nervous system. But in 2017, then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt delayed a decision by five years. Science correspondent…

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Aug 09

EPA violated law by keeping harmful pesticide on the market, court says

By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press

In a split decision, the court said Thursday that Scott Pruitt, a Republican forced to resign earlier this summer amid ethics scandals, violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is harmful.

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Feb 26

Species of bees and other pollinators are shrinking, UN report warns

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Many species of wild bees, butterflies and other critters that pollinate plants are shrinking toward extinction, and the world needs to do something about it before our food supply suffers, a new United Nations scientific mega-report warns.

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Jan 06

EPA says pesticide harms bees in some cases

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A major pesticide harms honeybees when used on cotton and citrus but not on other big crops like corn, berries and tobacco, the Environmental Protection Agency found.

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