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1. Settlement To Tighten Regulation Of Pesticides

Author

Einhorn, Catrin

Subjects
United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy, Endangered species -- Protection and preservation, Compromise and settlement, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Endangered Species Act of 1973
Abstract

A new court settlement will put the Environmental Protection Agency on track to regulate pesticides more tightly. Call it a win for the little species, though all kinds of endangered [...]

Published
2023

2. E.P.A. to Block Use of Pesticide On Food, Citing Risk to Children

Author

Davenport, Coral

Subjects
United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Powers and duties, Powers and duties, Health aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Food and beverage production/distribution software, Chlorpyrifos -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Health aspects, Child health -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides regulation, Food industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy, Children -- Health aspects
Abstract

The agency will reverse a Trump-era decision to keep chlorpyrifos, one of the most common pesticides, in use. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it is banning [...]

Published
2021

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3. In Switzerland, Voters Reject Plan to Outlaw Crop Pesticides

Author

Illien, Noele

Subjects
Switzerland -- Environmental aspects, Pesticides policy -- Political aspects -- Public opinion, Referendum, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The referendum would have barred the use of the synthetic pesticides in farms and gardens. ZURICH -- Voters in Switzerland on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have banned [...]

Published
2021

4. At U.S.D.A., Pesticide Lobby Encounters a Welcome Mat

Author

Ivory, Danielle and Faturechi, Robert

Subjects
United States. Department of Agriculture -- Officials and employees, Pesticides industry -- Political activity, Pesticides policy -- Political aspects, Herbicides -- Political activity, Chemical industry -- Political activity, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

At a private meeting in September, congressional aides asked Rebeckah Adcock, a top official at the Department of Agriculture, to reveal the identities of the people serving on the deregulation [...] more...

Published
2017

5. Makers to end pesticide's sale for home use

Subjects
Diazinon -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides -- Health aspects, Pesticides industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy -- Planning
Published
2000

6. Bill Limiting Pesticide Use On Hawaii Island Is Vetoed

Author

Pollack, Andrew

Subjects
Pesticides -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy, Mayors -- Environmental policy, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

The mayor of Kauai County, Hawaii, has vetoed a hotly contested bill that would have restricted the use of pesticides by companies developing genetically modified crops on the island. The [...]

Published
2013

7. Europe Bans Pesticides Thought to Be Hurting Bees

Author

Jolly, David

Subjects
Pesticides industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy, Herbicides -- Laws, regulations and rules, Chemical industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

PARIS -- The European Commission will enact a two-year ban on a class of pesticides thought to be harming global bee populations, the European Union's health commissioner said Monday. ''I [...]

Published
2013

8. No Decision on Bee-Harming Pesticides In Europe

Author

Jolly, David

Subjects
Pesticides -- Usage, Pesticides policy -- Planning, Bees -- Protection and preservation, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, European Union. European Food Safety Authority -- Reports
Abstract

A proposed measure to restrict the use of pesticides that have been implicated in bee die-offs around the world was left in limbo on Friday, after representatives from Britain and [...]

Published
2013

9. Hoping to Save Bees, Europe Is to Vote on a Pesticide Ban

Author

Jolly, David

Subjects
Pesticides -- Safety and security measures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Environmental aspects, Pesticides policy -- Safety and security measures -- International aspects, Bees -- Safety and security measures -- Control -- Protection and preservation -- Environmental aspects, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, European Union. European Commission -- Standards -- Environmental policy
Abstract

PARIS -- Will Brussels try to give bees a break? In a case closely watched on both sides of the Atlantic, European officials plan to vote Friday on a proposal [...]

Published
2013

10. Pesticides: ban on a cousin of DDT has loopholes in India, where children were harmed

Author

Mcneil, Donald G., Jr.

Subjects
Pesticides -- Usage -- Health aspects -- Distribution, Pesticides policy, Company distribution practices, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Endosulfan (Pesticide) -- Usage -- Health aspects -- Distribution
Abstract

Endosulfan, a powerful 50-year-old insecticide sometimes called DDT's ''cousin,'' was officially banned last week at an international pesticides meeting in Geneva. Partial exemptions were created for India, however; the chemical [...] more...

Published
2011

11. Dispute Over Pesticide for California Strawberries Has Implications Beyond State

Author

Wollan, Malia

Subjects
Pesticides -- Usage -- Licensing, certification and accreditation, Pesticides policy -- Evaluation, Strawberries, Fruit industry -- Economic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

SACRAMENTO -- Even as the sweet strawberry harvest reaches its peak here, a bitter disagreement has erupted between the State Department of Pesticide Regulation and a scientific review committee over [...] more...

Published
2010

12. National Briefing West: California: Criminal Charges For 2 In Pesticide Case

Subjects
Golden West Nuts Inc. -- Cases, Cases, Company legal issue, Nut industry -- Cases, Pesticides regulation -- Cases, Poisoning -- Cases, Occupational safety and health -- Cases, Pesticides policy -- Cases, Occupational health and safety -- Cases
Abstract

A co-owner and a manager of a nut company in Oakdale face felony charges after a hose ruptured and sprayed an almond orchard worker with pesticide in March 2004. The [...]

Published
2005

13. 4 States Sue E.P.A., Citing Health Risk Of Pesticide Residue

Subjects
United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Cases, Cases, Company legal issue, Pesticide residues -- Cases, Pesticides regulation -- Cases, Food safety -- Cases, Pesticides policy -- Cases, Food -- Safety and security measures, Food Quality Protection Act of 1996
Abstract

The attorneys general of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday, claiming that it fails to protect children from the risk of eating [...] more...

Published
2003

14. Fighting malaria with DDT

Subjects
Government regulation, Pesticides policy -- Ethical aspects -- International aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Environmental aspects -- Usage, Industrial nations -- International relations -- Environmental policy -- Usage -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Environmental aspects, Developing countries -- Diseases -- Environmental aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage, Malaria -- Control -- Prevention, DDT (Insecticide) -- Environmental aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage -- Ethical aspects
Abstract

The world is losing the war against malaria. Once considered near eradication, malaria today kills more than a million people a year in Africa alone. One reason is that wealthy […]

Published
2002

15. Curbs on bug spray

Author

Revkin, Andrew C.

Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pesticides policy -- Laws, regulations and rules, Herbicides -- Laws, regulations and rules, Chemical industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Insecticides -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Homeowners, exterminators and hardware stores scrambled to read the fine print on bug-spray labels after the Environmental Protection Agency announced that chlorpyrifos, one of the most popular ingredients in household […] more...

Published
2000