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Trump administration ending with Chlorpyrifos still OK for ag uses

By Dan Flynn on December 9, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency is extending the use of the pesticide Chlorpyrifos for some purposes. Hawaii, New York and California ban the use of the pesticide.

One of the most widely-used pesticides in agriculture, chlorpyrifos …
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Water and chemicals that never go away are subjects of Consumer Reports cover story

By Dan Flynn on September 24, 2020

The new Consumer Reports soon hitting mailboxes returns to one of CR’s old mainstays—Safe drinking water. In short order, it teaches how to check on your tap water, discloses test results for 45 bottled water…
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Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal

By Dan Flynn on June 9, 2020

Just as it was looking like American agriculture was going to survive the pandemic and planting was turning out successful, rural areas learned they were losing the weedkiller dicamba to protect the soybeans they’ve put …
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Water shut-offs pose safety risks during coronavirus pandemic

By Cookson Beecher on March 30, 2020

Imagine this, if you will. You’re a young dad. Three children, 3, 5 and 7. They’re not in school or daycare because the schools and daycare centers in your state have been closed down because…
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Federal agencies join efforts for electronic home for biotech regs

By News Desk on January 10, 2020

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday launched a unified website for biotechnology regulation. The agencies timed the rollout to coincide with January 2020’s observance…
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USDA report shows more than half of foods tested have pesticide residues

By Coral Beach on December 17, 2019

While more than half of the foods tested had pesticide residues, less than 1 percent of the commodities covered by the USDA’s Pesticide Data Program had levels above legal limits.

The annual report from the…
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EPA permits agricultural use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos until at least 2020

By Dan Flynn on July 23, 2019

The federal Environmental Protect Agency has tossed another petition calling for a ban on the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Two years ago, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denied requests fo revoke all tolerances or maximum residue levels…
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Bill for Safe Food Act seeks to consolidate federal oversight

By Coral Beach on June 27, 2019

Citing fragmented food safety oversight, which is split up between 15 federal agencies, two lawmakers want Congress to scrap the current system and the ineffective laws that regulate it.

The Safe Food Act could weave…
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Center for Food Safety wins in case to force EPA to ban 12 neonicotinoids

By Dan Flynn on May 22, 2019

Final notices of cancellation for the registration of 12 neonicotinoid pesticides have been published in the Federal Register by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The decision to pull the pesticides from the market was part…
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New York steps ahead of Hawaii on agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos

By Dan Flynn on May 3, 2019

The agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos, which escaped being banned nationally a couple of years ago, soon won’t be legally available in New York or Hawaii.

In 2018, Hawaii enacted legislation to ban chlorpyrifos beginning in 2022.…
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Glyphosate use may be OK on farms, gardens, but Bayer may pay for it

By Dan Flynn on May 2, 2019

Its critics say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has “doubled down” on the active ingredient in Roundup, the popular weed killer.

But that’s probably an overstatement.

On April 30 the EPA changed Roundup’s label requirements…
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