Under pressure from the courts and activist groups, the Environmental Protection Agency has been trying to fix the way it registers pesticides while accounting for effects on endangered species ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 10, 2025) An industry-led campaign to quash lawsuits against chemical manufacturers because of their “failure to warn” about the hazards of their pesticide products has failed ...

The Newsom administration is gaining traction in its years-long push for a dramatic increase in California’s sales tax on pesticides. The added revenue would boost the budget for the Department of ...

Pesticide applicators are not required to notify schools before spraying, but some state lawmakers want to change that. House ...

Executive Director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau Norm Groot says even the existing restrictions make pest control in California difficult.

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Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. Rice harvesting in Nickerie, Suriname, where paraquat ...

Consumer 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 been ...

Jeffrey Gore receives funding from the USDA-ARS and has received funding from various state and national commodity boards, and chemical and biotechnology companies in the past. Jeffrey Gore served on ...