"EU Agrees Total Ban On Bee-Harming Pesticides"
"The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees."
Source: Guardian, 04/30/2018
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Farm Bill Lets EPA Approve Pesticides Without Endangered Species Review
"A provision in the 2018 farm bill would allow the EPA to approve pesticides without undertaking reviews now required to protect endangered species."
Source: Roll Call, 04/18/2018
"New Farm Bill Tweaks Commodity Title, Overhauls Conservation"
"House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway on April 12 kicked off a battle over the next farm bill by releasing draft legislation that would make some improvements to major commodity programs, while overhauling conservation policy and making sweeping reforms to nutrition assistance."
Source: AgWeek, 04/13/2018
Maine Gov. Wants To Override Local Pesticide Rules In 30 Municipalities
"More communities are developing ordinances meant to protect residents from toxic chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 04/02/2018
EPA Says It Wants Research Transparency. Scientists See Attack on Science
"The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a major change to the way it assesses scientific work, a move that would severely restrict the research available to it when writing environmental regulations."
Source: NY Times, 03/27/2018
"Pesticides: Trump EPA Illegally Delayed Applicator Rule — Judge"
"U.S. EPA acted illegally when it delayed new regulations on the certification and training of pesticide applicators, a federal judge ruled yesterday."
Source: E&E News PM, 03/23/2018
Judge Orders California Agricultural Officials To Cease Pesticide Use
"A judge has ordered California agricultural officials to stop spraying pesticides on public and private property to control insects that threaten the state’s $45-billion agriculture industry."
Source: LA Times, 03/01/2018
"Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don't Help The Environment"
"Honeybees are amazing and adorable, and they suffer when people spray pesticides or mow down wildflowers. We've heard plenty in recent years about collapsing bee colonies."
Source: NPR, 01/29/2018
"Controversial Insecticides Pervasive In Great Lakes Tributaries"
"U.S. scientists found neonicotinoid insecticides in about three-quarters of samples from 10 major Great Lakes tributaries."
Source: EHN, 01/26/2018
Govt Scientists Say Controversial Pesticide Killing Endangered Salmon
"The federal government's top fisheries experts say that three widely used pesticides — including the controversial insecticide chlorpyrifos — are jeopardizing the survival of many species of salmon, as well as orcas that feed on those salmon."
Source: NPR, 01/12/2018
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