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The EPA Cop Who Became a Warrior for ‘Forever Chemicals’
The Wall Street Journal· 3 weeks agoSCIENCE As a young toxicologist at the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1980s, Michael Dourson...
Court tosses EPA ban on pesticide linked to brain damage in kids
The Hill via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA federal appeals court on Thursday is tossing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ban on a...
EPA announces new pesticide protection measure applied to 27 animal species: Report
Salon via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA farmer spraying pesticide on Marigold flowers in a field.Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty...
Remnants of Two Banned Insecticides Nearly Eliminated in Great Lakes Region
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo banned insecticides known to linger in the atmosphere have been all but eliminated from North...
Gardening writer: Let's help Palm Beach inform residents about toxic insecticides
The Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNeonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”) were introduced in the 1990s and are now the most widely used...
What Will It Take for the EPA to Ban a Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPesticides, Rachel Carson wrote in 1962, have “the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the...
Are green beans high risk? What to know about Consumer Reports' pesticide in produce study
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoConsumer Reports released a new study on pesticides that found certain produce contains an "unhealthy" dose of the insecticides and that green beans contained residue of pesticides that have ...
DOJ sues eBay for selling environmentally hazardous products
Engadget· 9 months agoThe US Department of Justice sued eBay on Wednesday for its role in the sale of products that harm...
The dirty secret of California's legal weed
LA Times via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago(Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Photos via Getty Images) Aging yuppies in neon beachwear stand before a green wall with the catchphrase, "You have...
What haunts me — and should haunt all of NY — about neonic pesticides | Opinion
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThose who don’t learn from history generally repeat it. That’s what worries me as we continue to...