Politics Jun 25 Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Economy Feb 06 EU scraps pesticide proposal in another concession to protesting farmers Farmers have insisted that measures like the one on pesticides would increase the bureaucratic burden and add to the price gap between their products and cheap foreign imports. 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
May 06 Safety concerns mount over neonicotinoid pesticides in unexpected places By Jim Daley, Scientific American 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. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch 7:42 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… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 9:58 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… Continue watching
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading