Economy Apr 29 Appeals court tells EPA to ban pesticide or decide it’s safe 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 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
Nation Oct 10 Watch 7:42 What’s on your citrus fruit? Trump’s EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use 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… By Miles O'Brien
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
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. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 8:45 Are pesticides to blame for the massive bee die-off? By PBS NewsHour Commercial beekeepers across America have been struggling with great numbers of bee deaths over the past few years. What’s behind their failing health? Some research points to a class of pesticide that’s coated onto a large proportion of corn and… Continue watching