Category: Pesticides
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How technology is helping farmers grow more food with less chemicals
Read More: How technology is helping farmers grow more food with less chemicalsRegulators, consumers, and farmers want to use less chemicals to grow food; chemical companies are changing their business models in response
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EPA: Three Popular Neonicotinoid Pesticides Likely to Drive More Than 200 Endangered Plants, Animals Extinct
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EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order
Read More: EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court orderInstead of yanking products, EPA made Monsanto and others amend labels before reapproving dicamba, lawsuit claims
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Agriculture needs fresh approach to tackle growing problem of insect resistance to biopesticides, new analysis finds
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Glyphosate and Glufosinate Residues in Honey and Other Hive Products
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We used to be No. 1 in schools. Now, at least we’re No. 2 in cancer.
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Citing birds and bees, groups petition EPA to close pesticide loophole
Read More: Citing birds and bees, groups petition EPA to close pesticide loophole“The failure to regulate treated seeds creates a gigantic regulatory blind-spot — allowing one of the largest and most widespread uses of pesticides to go almost completely untracked and unregulated.”
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So-called ‘safe’ pesticides have surprisingly ill effects
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First the good news: The bees are back!
Read More: First the good news: The bees are back!But the lingering impacts of the AltEn neonic contamination catastrophe in Nebraska are frightening
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The Weedkiller Dicamba Is Poisoning Wildlife Habitat. Will the EPA Finally Act?
Read More: The Weedkiller Dicamba Is Poisoning Wildlife Habitat. Will the EPA Finally Act?Blamed for destroying crops and fraying community ties, the widely used herbicide also poses a threat to the plants birds need, experts say.
