The pesticide lobby has long sought to preempt local authority through the federal pesticide law.
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What's good: For consumers in countries with weak pesticide regulations, like India, organic food reduces pesticide exposure.
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Trump also gave the green light to a pesticide that I call Dow Chemical's Nerve Gas Pesticide.
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Between February 2016 and February 85033, 2,577 pesticide exposure incidents were reported to the National Pesticide Information Center.
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Pesticide suicide rates were identical between the group getting the pesticide containers and the group that got nothing.
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While organic crops are not pesticide free, peer-reviewed studies have found they have fewer pesticide residues than conventional crops.
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The EPA told CNN that HaloSan is not a registered pesticide product and has not been reviewed by EPA's pesticide program.
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Codex helps set global limits for pesticide residues, including the amount of pesticide that can safely be applied to food crops.
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The messages were accompanied by packages of infant formula laced with pesticide 1080 and demanded that use of the toxic pesticide be stopped.
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EPA SUED OVER PESTICIDE DECISION: Two groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday over its decision not to ban a pesticide last week.
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STATES CHALLENGE EPA OVER PESTICIDE: Seven Democratic states are challenging EPA head Scott Pruitt's decision not to further restrict the use of the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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But researchers were able to draw similar conclusions from California pesticide-use data as they did from self-reported pesticide usage, strengthening the findings, Braun noted.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and other anti-pesticide groups have waged war on chlorpyrifos for 20 years.
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LOSS FOR GREENS IN PESTICIDE FIGHT: A federal appeals court sided with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday in a decision regarding the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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EPA ACCIDENTALLY POSTS PESTICIDE REVIEW: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accidentally posted a review Friday that seemed to say the pesticide glyphosate is not likely carcinogenic.
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"[California] is looking closely at this pesticide to see whether further restrictions are warranted," a spokesperson for the state Department of Pesticide Regulation told CNBC this week.
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The pesticide is used to kill insects in nearly 100 countries across 8.5 million crop acres per year, making it the most widely used pesticide in agriculture.
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The researchers analyzed each woman's pesticide exposure by determining whether the fruits and vegetables she consumed had high or low levels of pesticide residues, based on reports from the US Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Data Program, which monitors the presence of pesticides in foods sold throughout the United States.
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Goldman said that Dow has been challenging independent studies that linked the pesticide to a drop in IQ of children whose mothers had been exposed to the pesticide.
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However, consuming low-pesticide-residue fruits and vegetables in lieu of high-pesticide-residue foods was associated with higher odds of pregnancy and giving birth, the researchers found.
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EPA sued for refusing to ban pesticide linked to autism EPA sued for refusing to ban pesticide linked to autism Environmentalists are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for reversing its position on a pesticide the Obama administration had recommended banning because of its links to autism and childhood brain defects.
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But while the administration is encouraging pesticide use in Puerto Rico, Republicans say that opposition to the pesticide measure shows that officials don't take the threat seriously on the mainland.
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Since cannabis isn't legal on a federal level that means there's not an EPA regulated pesticide in existence that explicitly states that it is okay to use that pesticide on cannabis.
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Though it is difficult to study the health effects of pesticide use, especially in developing countries, the PAHO correlates the rise in childhood pesticide poisoning with increased import of pesticides for agriculture.
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The petition dates back to September 250, when the Pesticide Action Network North America and the Natural Resources Defense Council requested a ban of the common pesticide based on concerns over its toxicity.
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"Although we did find that intake of high-pesticide-residue fruits and vegetables were associated to lower reproductive success, intake of low-pesticide-residue fruits and vegetables had the opposite association," Chiu said.
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EPA - pesticide: A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ordered removal of a widely used pesticide from the market, ruling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ignored scientific studies about its dangers, particularly to children.
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The birds were on the brink of extinction five decades ago, their eggs made too fragile by the pesticide DDT, which was delisted as an acceptable pesticide by the federal government in 1972.
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One photo shows Iraqi newcomers being sprayed with DDT pesticide.
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Residents were able to opt out of the pesticide spray.
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The pesticide: Neonicotinoids have been in use since the 1990s.
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The Monsanto Company began selling the pesticide in the 1970s.
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A Republican dream of weakening pesticide regulations has been scotched.
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"We have pretty good control of pesticide amount," He said.
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GILLIBRAND BILL WOULD BAN HARMFUL PESTICIDE FROM SCHOOL MEALS: Sen.
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And Hawaii will be ground zero for the pesticide fight.
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It also pays for pesticide safety education for farm workers.
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And German pesticide giant BASF just launched agtech accelerator Agrostart.
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He also overturned a ban on the carcinogenic pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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Does Monsanto want a 97 percent drop in pesticide use?
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Fortunately, the rules governing organic pesticide use are more relaxed.
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Section 9114, "Unlawful Acts," will exempt EPA, pesticide manufacturers and end users from liability for killing endangered wildlife if the EPA determines that the pesticide won't jeopardize listed species or destroy critical habitat. Rep.
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"The evidence is very, very strong and compelling — some of the best of any single pesticide in the world," said Paul Towers, a policy advocate for Pesticide Action Network, a California-based environmental organization.
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Forcing EPA to ban toxic pesticide The state successfully filed a suit in 2018 that forced the EPA to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which is suspected of causing health problems for infants and small children.
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Mosquitoes that lead to fewer mosquitoes are also, technically, a pesticide.
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While farming in the Sebitoli area isn't new, pesticide use is.
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The fabric picks up much of the pesticide and protects them.
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Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate pesticide that we've been using since 1965.
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It's all pesticide-laden food [produced] at a very high cost.
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Pretty says this method is extremely effective in reducing pesticide use.
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The pesticide is made by Corteva Agriscience, formerly part of DowDuPont.
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The stripes may confuse the flies' vision, potentially reducing pesticide use.
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The technique could help reduce pesticide use and improve livestock health.
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Widespread pesticide use after World War II had decimated their numbers.
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And Colorado's Organic Cannabis Association has developed a pesticide-free certificate.
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Agricultural workers must wear protective equipment when the pesticide is used.
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The pesticide is commonly used on corn, soybean and oat crops.
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The substances had previously been listed as safe for pesticide use.
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In California, farm workers are being sickened by a dangerous pesticide.
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The pesticide has been linked to nervous system and brain disorders.
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Clariant makes aircraft de-icing fluids, pesticide ingredients and plastic colouring.
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Since cannabis is still illegal on the federal level, the EPA hasn't set guidelines for pesticide use on crops, and it's up to states to test for pesticide levels on their own and set maximal limits.
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APHL members have also reported disruptions in the USDA's AMS Pesticide Data Program, which does sampling, testing and reporting of pesticide residues in agricultural commodities in the U.S. food supply that could cause problems for children.
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The rule was updated under then-President Obama in 2015 because the administration concluded that enhanced safety training for farmworkers and pesticide handlers would help reduce the amount and severity of pesticide exposure on the job.
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The rule was updated under former President Obama in 2015 because the administration concluded that enhanced safety training for farmworkers and pesticide handlers would help reduce the amount and severity of pesticide exposure on the job.
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Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Democrat from New Jersey, sent a letter to Rebeckah Adcock, a top official at the Department of Agriculture and former pesticide lobbyist, demanding documents related to correspondence with the pesticide industry.
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Staff members at the Fish and Wildlife Service, emails show, did have access to actual pesticide usage, as well as other information, such as measurements of pesticide concentrations found in salmon-bearing streams in Washington State.
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The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for enforcing maximum pesticide residue levels for any foods in interstate commerce, and it issues an annual report on pesticide residue found in food — with the exception of glyphosate.
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The report's results showed that 92% of the samples of conventionally grown kale were positive for two or more pesticide residues, and a single sample of kale sometimes contained as many as 18 different pesticide residues.
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Chemical companies signed an accord with the EPA to stop manufacturing it for residential use in 2000, but the Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a petition in 2007 to ban the pesticide.
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Government scientists at the EPA concluded that a pesticide…Read more ReadOn March 29th, the EPA administrator rejected a petition from the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council to ban chlorpyrifos.
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On Wednesday, EPA-head Scott Pruitt denied a petition first filed in 2007 by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council to ban chlorpyrifos, a common pesticide used on crops today.
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While Monsanto and Syngenta, two leading agribusiness companies, together hold close to one-third of the global fertilizer and pesticide market, experts say it is astounding that China is now rivaling the pesticide production of multinational corporations.
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Read This Next: I Brought DuPont to Trial for its Toxic Pesticide
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Chlorpyrifos is manufactured by DowDuPont, which has insisted the pesticide is safe.
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The pesticide has also been linked to health problems in farm workers.
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The breakthroughs in seed and pesticide technologies have not come without problems.
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Pesticide residue has increased in strawberries because of out-of-season demand.
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Its pesticide and crop science business would be based in Monheim, Germany.
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These chemicals are environmentally harmful and eventually lead to pesticide-resistant bugs.
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Following organized protests, Puerto Rico's governor rejected aerial spraying of the pesticide.
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Will restrictions be placed on pesticide use (a key threat to monarchs)?
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Nor has genetic modification delivered on promises of less pesticide use. Cheese.
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While cannabis growers say they won't sue, pesticide sprayers aren't risking it.
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Instead, he moved to continue a review of the pesticide through 2022.
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For example, pesticide companies funded fraudulent testing of their chemicals for decades.
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Because of his invention, pesticide use dropped in Hawaii and production flourished.
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Pesticide residues, oil and gasoline can also be mixed into the waters.
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And any pesticide eventually becomes useless when mosquitoes evolve to resist it.
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The insect-resistant eggplant seems to be reducing pesticide use in Bangladesh.
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Roundup, the country's most widely-used pesticide, is probably not carcinogenic to humans, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in an evaluation released Friday The finding about the pesticide glyphosate — which will be evaluated by EPA advisers next month before the agency decides whether to adopt it — is likely to disappoint environmentalists and food safety activists want the Monsanto Co.-produced pesticide to be restricted.
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An adult woman could eat 18,615 servings of kale in one day without any effect — even if the kale has the highest pesticide residue recorded for kale by USDA, according to the Alliance for Food and Farming pesticide calculator.
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But can bees really do as good of a job as pesticide sprayers?
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He later found out the festival was sponsored by the same pesticide companies.
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REPORTER: The solution, a pesticide that killed the worms and saved his tomatoes.
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Most uses of the pesticide were banned in the United States in 1977.
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To those in Yunnan, the solution to the worm problem seemed obvious - pesticide.
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Alex Wilhelm: A battery company in Philadelphia from a pesticide company in Georgia.
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The Trump administration has weathered several instances of criticism related to pesticide regulations.
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Today, Monsanto's exerts nearly total control over genetic traits for pesticide-resistant soybeans.
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After World War II, the birds were ingesting the widely used pesticide DDT.
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The pesticide is applied to the seeds in a distribution and processing plant.
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" In another post he says the product is "COMPLETELY pesticide AND contaminate FREE.
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But no organisation tracks pesticide use by type across Europe, making comparisons difficult.
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Instead, they implicate pesticide use and changes in how the land is used.
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Whole Foods' 20,000 square foot greenhouse produces pesticide-free produce all year round.
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German environment minister Svenja Schulze wants to ban the pesticide glyphosate, Euractiv reports.
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The Obama-era EPA cited two violations of pesticide use laws by Syngenta.
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Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide commonly used on crops like corn, almonds and cotton.
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A group of Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday to ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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Habitat destruction, pesticide poisoning, and diseases affecting bees are all contributing to CCD.
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Le Foll has been piloting a wider French plan to halve pesticide use.
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And each one included all four pesticide classes: fungicides, fumigants, insecticides and herbicides.
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The pesticide, chlorpyrifos, was the same one ingested years earlier by unwitting Nebraskans.
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The EPA recently expanded the use of a pesticide considered harmful to bees.
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And pesticide drift can poison caterpillars even when they aren't the targeted pest.
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The US government has long expressed significant concern about pesticide use on airplanes.
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Pesticide and fertilizer runoff from farmland can also pollute what little is left.
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Signs warn visitors that they have entered a pesticide- and soda-free zone.
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Pesticide levels dropped in the cord blood of many newborns joining the study.
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Habitat loss and pesticide exposure already have brought on widespread bird-species declines.
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Neonicotinoids were initially licensed for use as a pesticide in Britain in 2002.
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In August, the Ninth Circuit ordered the EPA to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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"Local farmers here didn't use much pesticide before and wouldn't buy chemicals until they saw the worms, meaning they might have missed the best time to kill them," said Yao, a sales manager for pesticide supplier Jingbo Agrochemicals Technology Co. Ltd.
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Their reversal of the previous administration's ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, done reportedly without consulting experts in the pesticide office, but instead, we've just learned, after a private meeting with the CEO of the chemical's manufacturer, set an early precedent.
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The Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resource Defense Council on Wednesday asked a federal court to force the EPA to take action on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used to kill insects on pests on crops, including some meant for human consumption.
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Replacing one serving day of fruits and veggies with high levels of pesticide residue with different, lower-pesticide options could boost the odds of pregnancy by 79 percent and the chances of a live birth by 88 percent, researchers estimated.
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The school, which has about 2,400 students, opened a 153-acre campus last fall near the site of several former pesticide plants, including Jiangsu Changlong Chemicals Company, a subsidiary of one of China's largest pesticide makers, Shenzhen Noposion Agrochemicals Company.
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Pesticide testing generally involves anywhere from 32 to 64 dogs—which vary in intensity of testing for controlled research purposes—being fed or exposed to pesticide-ridden food and environments in an effort to see how the chemicals will affect humans.
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Heaps of dead bees piling up outside hives points to acute, immediate pesticide poisoning.
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The author has linked her "motionless scourge" to the pesticide-blasted prairies of Argentina.
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Wildlife managers have long used lampricide — the lamprey version of pesticide — with mixed results.
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Thousands of people died in 1984 after a nearby pesticide plant leaked toxic gas.
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Bosch builds sensors to help farmers measure growth and calibrate fertilizer and pesticide use.
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Government scientists at the EPA concluded that a pesticide sprayed on crops was toxic.
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If we see bugs on rice, our first instinct is to grab the pesticide.
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Flashback: Thursday's decision follows a federal appeals court ruling last August banning the pesticide.
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The seeds boosted beet cooperatives' profit margins as they reduced labor and pesticide expenses.
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Health Ministry data show that around 4,000 pesticide poisoning cases were reported last year.
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The environmental group Friends of the Earth also places major blame on pesticide use.
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EFSA plays an active role in the EU's pesticide-approval process; IARC does not.
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The WHO said the benefits of the pesticide outweighed the health and environmental risks.
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The pesticide, from Axios' Erin Ross: Neonicotinoids have been in use since the 1990s.
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The pesticide, in use since 1965, has sickened dozens of farmworkers in recent years.
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For decades, one pesticide after another failed as the moths evolved to withstand it.
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In other words, you end up with locally-produced, GMO-free, pesticide-free strawberries.
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EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson emerged believing career staff wanted the pesticide banned.
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Monsanto's unsuccessful bid for Syngenta, a pesticide maker, would have been worth $47 billion.
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Their use has dramatically cut pesticide spraying, while simultaneously increasing yields and farmer profits.
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Glyphosate is a key ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, a commonly used commercial pesticide.
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Unquestionably, the major reason was lobbying by the pesticide trade groups and agricultural producers.
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The list provides consumers with a potential strategy to avoid ingestion of pesticide residue.
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The measure would loosen pesticide rules in order to prevent the spread of Zika.
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But many farmworkers say they have been injured by prolonged exposure to the pesticide.
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Strychnine, a highly toxic alkaloid, is ordinarily used as a pesticide for killing rodents.
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More From VICE: How to Deep Fry Vegetables And what about the pesticide problem?
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Researchers believe they will be able to create drought-, disease-, and pesticide-resistant crops.
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The pesticide is linked to neurological damage and developmental delays, particularly among young people.
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The investors were enraged by the company's botched acquisition of American pesticide maker Monsanto.
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Cucumbers barely escaped the "Dirty Dozen," ranking 13th from the top for pesticide residues.
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Unsurprisingly, the FSC standards are considerably more strict regarding clearcutting, pesticide use, and more.
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Put away the pesticide Over the past decades, our reliance on pesticides has increased.
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But that is labor intensive, and pesticide resistance in some fleas has been reported.
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The pesticide known as chlorpyrifos is both clearly dangerous and in very wide use.
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With American guidance, pesticide applications doubled in Tamaulipas last year from the year before.
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This isn't the first time California's consumers have been warned about pesticide-laced pot.
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After independent analyses linked developmental issues and lower IQ to children born to mothers who were exposed to the pesticide, EPA scientists made a case for banning use of the chemical as a crop pesticide because it could reach people on produce.
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MIT researchers found that using just two cheap additives, they can reduce how much of the applied pesticide "bounces off" of plants, making for far more efficient spraying of crops, and far less total volume of pesticide needed to achieve the same effects.
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The EPA labels on synthetic pesticides outline exactly which vegetables it is okay to use that particular pesticide on, and if you use the pesticide on tomatoes when it was only meant for lettuce, you're in violation of a firmly upheld federal law.
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The turning point came in 1972 when the Environmental Protection Agency banned the pesticide DDT.
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In July, the EPA expanded the use of pesticide considered "very highly toxic" to bees.
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Even though the law mandates that pesticide retailers must register with the Ministry, many don't.
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Hitting mosquitoes where it hurts – their eggs – is one way of controlling pesticide-resistant insects.
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However, today, they account for about half of all pesticide use in the United States.
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" She added that pesticide-resistant GMOs were "not sustainable" and "not good for the farmers.
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To control that purely cosmetic defect you had to use this horrible pesticide called Monitor.
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The pesticide is called Pyriproxyfen, and it's used in water tanks to eliminate mosquito larvae.
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The kingdom had imposed a ban on Egyptian strawberries also over pesticide residues in July.
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Beijing has said it is targeting zero growth of chemical fertilizer and pesticide by 2020.
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On 16 occasions between 2006 and 2014 a school was evacuated because of pesticide drift.
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Peregrines were nearly wiped out in the mid-20th century because of the pesticide DDT.
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Foods with high levels of pesticide residue can include apples, kale, strawberries and raw spinach.
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Glyphosate is a popular pesticide that critics say is commonly sprayed on genetically engineered crops.
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This is partly because thiabendazole is a "systemic" pesticide, meaning it penetrates below the surface.
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"No pesticide, a lot of flavor, no GMO, harvested and sold on the same day."
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Farmers, regulators and the companies selling the pesticide are examining ways to control the drift.
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There's pesticide exposure, there are concussions — there's not just one way to get this disease.
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Luckily, there's a relatively new charity that's taken on hazardous pesticide bans as its cause.
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Agency records show repeated contacts in early 2017 by the pesticide industry with administration officials.
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The European Commission is under pressure from consumers and environmental groups to ban the pesticide.
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" Furthermore, he charged the administration's failure to ban the pesticide reflects "their anti-science agenda.
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Eliminating the profits from sales of the pesticide would amount to a considerable financial loss.
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E.P.A. scientists then recommended that the product be banned for commercial use as a pesticide.
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Beijing has said it was targeting zero growth of chemical fertilizer and pesticide by 2020.
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EPA information indicates the part previously used for pesticide storage poses the highest ongoing risks.
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The Tamaulipas program had stalled, he said, because the Mexicans were not applying enough pesticide.
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In agriculture, we've seen even greater implementation of efficiency in water, pesticide, and fertilizer targeting.
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DowDuPont is also spinning off its crop seed and pesticide businesses to form Corteva Agriscience.
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He hopes to go pesticide-free, and planted a row of native beach plums, too.
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Bangladesh and Thailand have quadrupled their pesticide use since the early 1990s, while Ghana, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso, countries newer to the pesticide game, have seen a tenfold increase over the same period, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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"One can confidently state that there is at least some association between pesticide exposure and childhood cancer," wrote the authors of a 2007 review of dozens of studies looking at pesticide exposure and childhood cancers published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
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"Local farmers here didn't use much pesticide before and wouldn't buy chemicals until they saw the worms, meaning they might have missed the best time to kill them," said Yao, a sales manager for pesticide supplier Jingbo Agrochemicals Technology Co Ltd in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province.
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The Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on Wednesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to force the EPA to regulate chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used to kill insects on crops, including some meant for human consumption.
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For one, many roaches in the wild are capable of surviving even a direct pesticide hit.
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Mosquito control experts hope the money would help shore up weaknesses in the nation's pesticide defenses.
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Investigators say the shopkeeper's servant has acknowledged he accidentally mixed pesticide into the laddu, Gulzar said.
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Hawaii just became the first state to ban a pesticide linked to developmental delays in kids.
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The FWC said it's testing for infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies and potential toxins — including rat pesticide.
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The team also tested fish in and outside of the Sebitoli region for traces of pesticide.
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What if gene editing, for example, could favor disease-resistance genes that would reduce pesticide use?
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Second, reduce your pesticide use for gardening and landscaping, and follow guidelines to reduce bee exposure.
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Earlier this year, a Chinese-government-owned chemical giant bought the seed and pesticide company Syngenta.
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Dow Chemical Co., which sells the pesticide under the brand name Lorsban, also supported Pruitt's decision.
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Earthjustice, the Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council are also challenging the decision.
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Pesticide use, disease and mites, as well as habitat loss, are largely blamed for their decline.
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Last year Ms Hanham surmised that a pesticide plant Mr Kim visited was probably making anthrax.
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That research has underpinned much of the argument against the pesticide, including the appeals court's decision.
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Experts say the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables far outweigh any potential pesticide risk.
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They know the price they pay is environmental health risk and the cost of pesticide resistance.
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In response to Zika, it expedited new uses for pesticide-treated bed nets and mosquito traps.
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And more than 80% of pineapples, papayas, asparagus, onions and cabbages tested negative for pesticide residues.
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But weed producers are often opposed to having pesticide use restricted due to severely lower yields.
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Although multiple techniques are available, some groups are calling for widespread reintroduction of the pesticide DDT.
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Activists are collecting accounts from residents who say the pesticide has caused rashes, headaches and nausea.
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Potatoes can tolerate cold, drought and poor soil, and need less water, fertilizer, pesticide and labor.
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Sri Lanka is perhaps the most famous case of suicides falling after a selective pesticide ban.
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The evidence is especially strong linking certain pesticide exposure with pediatric cancers and permanent neurological damage.
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Cantaloupe is on the "Clean Fifteen" list, meaning it has relatively low levels of pesticide residues.
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A widely used farm pesticide the Trump administration refused to ban might get restricted in California.
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But many companies argue the science is uncertain and banning the pesticide would be too costly.
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Companies are expected to cover the costs associated with their applications for approval of a pesticide.
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It's no longer enough to employ pesticide-free ingredients — these days, products should have superpowers, too.
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If farmers lessen their pesticide use, it can both help the environment and their gross margins.
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The report also alleges that high pesticide use leads to unsafe working conditions and even death.
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He's rescinding regulation — even one that banned the use of a pesticide linked to Parkinson's disease.
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Tennessee joins three other states in imposing restrictions on dicamba, a flagship pesticide for Monsanto (MON).
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Analysis of recent data showed that 70% of this produce sold for consumption contained pesticide residues.
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Many of us recall the 28500 pesticide plant disaster at Bhopal, India, which caused 6900,2628 deaths.
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She recommends eating organic to avoid pesticide residues, and avoiding Tylenol and other painkillers during pregnancy.
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We're thinking of the fruit here, and the application that was banned was the pesticide ALAR.
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The plight of insect communities has been linked, mostly, to pesticide use and intensive agricultural practices.
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In other research, people who have applied the pesticide and have been exposed to high levels over time seemed to have a higher risk of lung cancer and immune disorders than farm workers who didn't work with the pesticide, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
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Feds: Restricted pesticide used in several locations Court documents filed Tuesday allege that Terminix knowingly applied the restricted-use pesticide at the Sirenusa resort in St. John, at 12 residential unites in St. Croix and at another unit in St. Thomas between September 2012 and February 2015.
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To improve pesticide management and avoid serious poisonings, the FAO is calling on countries to adhere to an "International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management," a voluntary framework that promotes best practices to prevent and reduce exposure to pesticides during handling, storage, transport, use, and disposal.
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In addition to following the label's instructions exactly, the National Pesticide Information Center recommends: -- Mixing pesticides outside or in well-ventilated areas -- Making sure children and pets are away from the area where you're mixing and applying pesticides -- Removing personal items, such as toys, clothing, or tools from the spray area to avoid contamination -- Mixing only what you need immediately to avoid storing or disposing of excess pesticide -- Having a plan in case of a pesticide spill.
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More than 80% of pineapples, papaya, asparagus, onions and cabbage that were sampled showed no pesticide residue.
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Farmers relied on tractors, massive amounts of pesticide and fertilizer inputs, all supplied by Soviet bloc countries.
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We've never really progressed from dangerous migrant farm labor conditions, with pesticide-laden workers in sweltering fields.
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The company directors are suspected of threatening public health and possession of a prohibited pesticide, prosecutors said.
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Once, a film festival rejected showing the doc, which Samp attributes to pesticide companies sponsoring the event.
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The day before the meeting, Pruitt decided against issuing a ban on a popular pesticide named chlorpyrifos.
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Fertilizer and pesticide producers are allowed to run at their normal capacity during the spring planting season.
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The science-based conservation organization promotes pollinator health, pesticide-free habitats, endangered species protection and healthy watersheds.
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Others will go the Whole Foods route, making organic and pesticide-free bud available at a premium.
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And so KBR burned Styrofoam, plastics, tires, pesticide containers, batteries, medical waste, and even human body parts.
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When these plants are fermented in cow urine, this solution can be used as a bio-pesticide.
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Over-exposure to copper sulphate, normally used in pesticide products, can cause nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
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Unfortunately, the pesticide can also be expressed in the plant's pollen, which is how bees are exposed.
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Those products can perform a wide range of different tasks, from pesticide spraying to search and rescue.
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Last month the Obama administration threatened to veto a stand-alone version of the pesticide-permitting bill.
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Bareburger is a fast-casual restaurant that specializes in organic meat, pesticide-free produce and no GMOs.
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The agency denied the petition by a dozen environmental groups, led by Earthjustice, to ban the pesticide.
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Ginkgo Bioworks has developed new yeasts, new probiotics, and bacteria that can reduce farmers' reliance on pesticide.
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This winter, China shut all pesticide plants that use volatile organic compounds during the winter heating season.
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Chikwenhere said the armyworm could become resistant to chemicals if farmers did not correctly apply the pesticide.
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An argument over pesticide use has settled like a fine mist over the operations of these companies.
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The farm bill should be a non-starter for its pesticide provisions alone, but it gets worse.
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In any case, it's a ruse to benefit pesticide manufacturers and farmers who find the regulation burdensome.
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The Center for Biological Diversity slammed the decision, saying the pesticide was "very hghly toxic" to bees.
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By comparison, total crop pesticide sales for some companies can exceed $500 million in a single quarter.
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But the EPA has not officially proposed any measures to further restrict the use of the pesticide.
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The pesticide that caused the family to fall ill was applied in the unit below their villa.
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Terminix fined Terminix agreed in March 2016 to pay $10 million for illegally using the banned pesticide.
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"Practices can really vary," Stewart said, and organic, pesticide-free flowers aren't always best for the environment.
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We grind the chilli, mix it with water, and spray the coffee plants, like a natural pesticide.
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As with Zika today in Brazil, a pesticide was widely blamed: tree spray containing arsenate of lead.
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That's because pesticide sprayers are concerned about accidentally contaminating nearby cannabis crops, which could render them unsellable.
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In California, farm workers are being sickened by a pesticide that the Obama administration tried to ban.
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Unlike a chemical pesticide, gene drives are inherently mobile — able to cross borders or potentially even oceans.
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Last week, the E.P.A. approved broad use of the pesticide sulfoxaflor, which is known to harm bees.
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His decision not to further restrict the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos came after pleas from industry.
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In an email response Thursday, EPA spokesperson Amy Graham defended the agency's actions on the controversial pesticide.
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In February, the EPA agreed to reduce the fine on Syngenta for violating pesticide regulations to $2900,220006.
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The three court losses undermined confidence in what is now the world's largest pesticide-and-seed company.
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That layer was deposited during 1968, when the lake was poisoned with rotenone, a fish-killing pesticide.
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These samples are then sent to a federally licensed USDA lab where their pesticide content is evaluated.
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One of the most difficult problem for cannabis cultivators is the strict federal laws overseeing pesticide use.
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In poisoning cases, Dr. Barr said, the problem often stems from the pesticide not being properly contained.
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" Echoing that sentiment, an EPA spokesperson, also in an emailed statement to VICE, wrote, "In setting tolerances for pesticide residues on various foods, EPA ensures that there will be a reasonable certainty of no harm to people when they consume food containing residues resulting from use of the pesticide.
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Advocacy organizations seeking to ban a pesticide linked to developmental disorders in children asked the courts Wednesday to intervene and order the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the pesticide from food within 30 days and from all uses within 60 days if it cannot prove it is safe.
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In the 1930s, a German chemist named Gerhard Schrader was trying to invent a new kind of pesticide.
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Raids were conducted at locations linked to Chickfriend, which allegedly used the pesticide, as well as potential suppliers.
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He says that pesticide planes pass by several times a day, though the frequency depends on the weather.
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Bayer's pesticide-focused agricultural business has few overlaps with Monsanto's dominant seed franchise, according to the companies' executives.
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"Also, sheep are sprayed directly with pesticides to prevent pests, so lanolin can contain pesticide residue," he claims.
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They found that spray repellents containing DEET and menthoglycol, a pesticide derived from eucalyptus plants, were most effective.
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So far, he said, it appears that crop pesticide residue does have measurable effects on the rats' hormones.
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Some cannabis products in Washington, Colorado and Canada have been recalled for pesticide levels found in the plants.
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Eventually, the company aims to make its non-GMO and pesticide-free produce as cheap as traditional agriculture.
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" He repeatedly tells a joke about the difference between locusts and regulators: "You can't use pesticide on regulators.
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Protect pollinating insects by following label directions intended to minimize drift and reduce pesticide risk to these organisms.
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Together, that may mean more genetically modified food in grocery stores, with a higher risk of pesticide residue.
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Opt for natural alternatives at your own home and shop for produce that has been grown pesticide-free.
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Investigators also linked data from state pesticide-use reports with mothers' addresses to determine exposure to agricultural sprays.
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The study relied on mothers' memories about their household pesticide exposure, a limitation of the research, Schmidt said.
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Its report cited Syngenta Seeds LLC, which faced a $4.9 million penalty in 2016 for violating pesticide regulations.
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For the USDA database, over 7,000 samples of apples were tested for each pesticide between 1994 and 2015.
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More broadly, the USDA tests discovered 225 different pesticides and pesticide breakdown products on common fruits and vegetables.
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Bayer is hoping to combine Monsanto with its own pesticide operations, forming a one-stop shop for farmers.
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Each of these foods tested positive for pesticide residues and contained higher concentrations of pesticides than other produce.
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And, on average, spinach samples had 1.8 times as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop.
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The administrator began reversing the proposal to ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, going against all credible scientific advice.
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In other words, even bees that didn't forage on pesticide-treated plants could still be exposed to agrochemicals.
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The impact of the TTIP on European pesticide regulations has long been a source of concern for environmentalists.
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Zeon Zoysia requires less water, fertilizer, nitrogen and pesticide than most other types of golf turf, Doguet said.
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"It was hard, very hard," she said, worrying that the pesticide would continue to harm children of farmworkers.
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Among them, in June 2015, four left-behind siblings committed suicide together by swallowing pesticide in Guizhou Province.
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In the vast farmlands of central California, day care centers have to take account of pesticide-spraying schedules.
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Demands for organic food, without pesticide and other chemical contamination, have created an entirely new food retail industry.
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Previous research has warned that domestic cats, glass buildings, pesticide use and climate change all play a part.
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The article also misstated part of the name of a court that was asked to ban the pesticide.
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An EPA review found that even minuscule amounts of the pesticide could impact fetus and infant brain development.
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The Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resource Defense Council both sued the EPA days after Pruitt's decision.
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In contrast to the Dirty Dozen, there was no detection of pesticide residues in 70% of these foods.
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This week, he ignored reports produced by EPA scientists that indicated a pesticide is bad for kids' brains.
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On Wednesday, the Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a complaint against the EPA, led by Trump appointee Scott Pruitt, asking a federal court to make the agency follow through on an Obama-era recommendation to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage in children.
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In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argued that the Center for Environmental Health, Californians for Pesticide Reform and Center for Biological Diversity are improperly challenging the government's review of 21 pesticide products containing malathion.
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If it sees a weed, it'll hit it with pesticide; if it sees a crop, it'll drop some fertilizer.
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The farmers also allegedly threatened to spray the police with pesticide used for olive trees, according to police reports.
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"The group behind the new report has a long history of spreading misinformation about pesticide residues," spokeswoman Lord said.
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Dias' comments come as Brazil faces increasing criticism, particularly abroad, regarding environmental issues such as deforestation and pesticide regulations.
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Glyphosate, the most widely used pesticide, has been listed as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Only about 7% of the strawberries sampled, though, had pesticide levels above what is considered allowable under U.S. law.
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The chemical is a restricted-use pesticide that the EPA has considered "highly toxic" for more than two decades.
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"In general, in Africa there's not a lot of fertilizer or pesticide use because it's too expensive," says Chapman.
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"There's also a problem that we have which is poor regulation of pesticide trade, handling, and application," he says.
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Crews are looking for household hazardous waste, such as e-waste, pesticide, propane tanks, paints, batteries and asbestos siding.
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Climate change, parasites, the intensification of pesticide use, urbanisation and an obsession with tidiness are causing colonies to collapse.
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AirBoard's drone is the size of two Toyota Prius cars and will focus initially on automated agtech pesticide spraying.
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Despite the heat, I'm in long sleeves and long pants, with an extra layer of pesticide for good measure.
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An EPA report this week notes that some forms of the pesticide can be "very highly toxic" to bees.
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We have little understanding about the impacts of pesticide combinations and how they affect developing bees and other pollinators.
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The report said their symptoms were consistent with "acute pesticide poisoning," including vomiting, elevated heart rates, headaches and dizziness.
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Last year four siblings left alone in the south-western province of Guizhou apparently committed suicide by drinking pesticide.
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That we can enjoy these products is thanks, in large part, to expanded pesticide use across the developing world.
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Here's a brief time line of this frightening, invisible killer: 1938 Sarin is developed in Germany as a pesticide.
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DDT was once the most widely used pesticide "in practically every part of the world," according to the EPA.
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"EPA's refusal to ban this dangerous pesticide is unconscionable," said Patti Goldman, the Earthjustice managing attorney handling the case.
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The EU says they will sell DuPont pesticide businesses and "almost the entirety of DuPont's global R&D organization."
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The list is meant to rank (non-organic) produce in terms of the amount of pesticide residue it carries.
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Bayer is hoping to unite that business with its own pesticide operations, forming a one-stop shop for farmers.
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Look beyond coffee and chocolate for fair trade products that are pesticide free, such as flowers or cotton clothes.
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The next step is to register the pesticide producers to ensure they comply with needs of farmers and consumers.
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Its workers, the special forces of mosquito control, wield sprayers loaded with pesticide, mostly on behalf of local governments.
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It allows EPA to make unilateral, self-interested determinations regarding pesticide impacts on endangered species on an extended timeframe.
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For example, Pruitt recently denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can cause brain damage in children.
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But it found bees could be endangered when the pesticide was used to treat soils or applied to plants.
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Above, a plane sprayed pesticide over the Miami neighborhood linked to more than a dozen cases of the virus.
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Bill fails in the House: Despite strong support from Republicans, the pesticide bill didn't pass in a Tuesday vote.
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The outbreak highlighted gaps in the mosquito control arsenal that remain, according to pesticide makers, abatement officials and entomologists.
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More than 98% of strawberries, spinach, peaches, nectarines, cherries and apples tested positive for at least one pesticide residue.
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The World Trade Organization uses Codex guidelines as its benchmark to adjudicate trade disputes involving food and pesticide matters.
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The chemical companies must inform pesticide sellers and trained applicators of the restrictions, according to Missouri's department of agriculture.
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The scientists had called for a ban based on research suggesting the pesticide might cause developmental disabilities in children.
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Here on display was a rusty canister for the cyanide-based Zyklon B, a pesticide adapted to poison humans.
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That is because "unlike most other types of product labels, pesticide labels are legally enforceable," according to E.P.A. policy.
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A federal court in 2015 directed the EPA to finalize its proposed rule that would have banned the pesticide.
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"We're disappointed, because delay means more children will be exposed to this nasty pesticide before it's banned," she said.
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Paraquat and another pesticide, rotenone, which is obtained from plant roots, are the ones most frequently linked to Parkinson's.
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In addition to bean purchases, Cocobod's budget pays for roads, fertiliser and pesticide distributions, as well as administrative costs.
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The leafy green joined the group's "Dirty Dozen" list of 12 fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residues.
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It is a colorless, tasteless, odorless liquid that was first synthesized in Germany in 1938 as a potential pesticide.
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While federal food safety law provides stringent rules to safeguard people from dangerous pesticide exposure, more must be done.
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Acute poisoning with the pesticide can cause nausea, dizziness, convulsions and even death in humans, as well as animals.
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The National Pesticide Information Center has more information about mosquito control, and tips for hiring a pest control service.
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This helps reduce costs and potential pesticide exposure to workers who would have needed to spray those crops manually.
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Once, at age 1003, she was arrested during a protest outside a supermarket while distributing fliers about pesticide risks.
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"The pesticide theory is plausible but not proven, and the study has many weaknesses," Fields told Gizmodo via email.
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A funnel is used to direct the placement of the poison to protect other wildlife from eating the pesticide.
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"We have strong reasons to suspect that endocrine-disrupting chemicals and pesticide exposure play a greater role," Levine says.
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The Chernobyl story is indeed as little about nuclear power as the Bhopal catastrophe is about the pesticide industry.
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President Donald Trump's administration denied a petition by environmental groups that sought to ban a common pesticide used on citrus fruits, apples, cherries and other crops, reversing a push by the Obama administration to revoke all uses of the pesticide on food after a government review concluded it could harm children's brains.
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When it was discovered in 1966 that the harmful pesticide DDT was accumulating in salmon flesh — a revelation due in part to the heroic reporting of Don L. Johnson at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the same paper where Egan now works — Wisconsin and Michigan became the nation's first states to ban the pesticide.
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In rejecting the pesticide ban, Mr. Pruitt took what is known as a "final agency action" on the question of the safety and use of chlorpyrifos, suggesting that the matter would not likely be revisited until 2022, the next time the E.P.A. is formally required to re-evaluate the safety of the pesticide.
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"Congress placed this obligation on the pesticide registrant rather than requiring taxpayers [to] fund data development," the representative told me.
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They include cultivators, weed-related biopharmaceutical firms, as well as pesticide and fertilizer manufacturers whose products are used for growing.
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Bayer's own tests have found that the pesticide is toxic in high doses to invertebrates in river and pond sediment.
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Those steps included studying and lowering pesticide use and planting new habitats for the bees to thrive in, she said.
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The European Commission has extended its deadline for a decision over ChemChina's proposal to buy the Swiss pesticide firm Syngenta.
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Once the pesticide operation begins, people occupying infected lands have to vacate for 24 hours until the chemicals break down.
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Worries about indiscriminate pesticide use could also encourage greater take-up of precision techniques, which big firms have invested in.
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Chlorpyrifos was first developed as a nerve gas during World War II and then approved as a pesticide in 1965.
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With such a high concentration in Michigan, officials scheduled aerial pesticide treatments for Wednesday night for parts of the state.
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The pesticide used, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, is actually a bacteria that is toxic to caterpillars, but not to other species.
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Hydrogen cyanide was the major component in Zyklon B, a pesticide that the Nazis used to gas millions of innocents.
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The aim is to build the planet's largest "vertical farming facility" in Dubai and produce herbicide and pesticide free greens.
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They prevent local governments from creating their own laws, on everything from gun control to sanctuary cities to pesticide control.
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Sarin is a clear, colorless, tasteless and odorless liquid that was originally developed in 1938 in Germany as a pesticide.
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But in the developing world, sparse health care infrastructure is a major barrier to understanding the extent of pesticide poisoning.
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Local authorities have also provided training to farmers and pesticide dealers on identification and prevention of armyworm, the bureau added.
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Traces have been found in waterways, threatening fish, and experts say overuse could make targeted insects immune to the pesticide.
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In a high profile case last June, four siblings in a village in the Guizhou province died after drinking pesticide.
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Almost 60 percent of the kale samples showed residual Dacthal, a pesticide that is known as a possible human carcinogen.
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And after Donald Trump's election, the pesticide giant made a million-dollar donation, one of the largest, to his inauguration.
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Although some politicians might be arguing about glyphosate, no pesticide regulator in the world considers it to be a carcinogen.
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According to a recent study in PLOS One, GM technology adoption has reduced global chemical pesticide use by 22019 percent.
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There's no evidence of environmental problems caused by genetically modified crops, but pesticide resistance is a problem, the report said.
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But buying organic fruits and vegetables makes sense for foods that typically have high levels of pesticide residue, he said.
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The cheapest eggs, birthed from factory-farmed, pesticide-fed hens, are usually packaged in styrofoam and priced at about $2.50.
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Crop seeds such as corn, soybeans and cotton are genetically modified to survive the pesticide while yield-sapping weeds die.
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The two others granted ethics exemptions worked as lobbyists for a major pesticide maker and a Native American tribe, respectively.
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The Trump administration is appealing a federal court ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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Its relatively long legs keep it perched above the surface of its food, which limits its exposure to pesticide applications.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Monday it will allow states to use a pesticide that is harmful to bees.
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California, the nation's top agricultural state, banned a common pesticide Wednesday, citing research showing it hinders brain development in children.
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The town reportedly warned residents about the pesticide plane in a newspaper announcement on Friday and via Facebook on Saturday.
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Washington (CNN)A federal court on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban a pesticide used widely in farming.
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No U.S. state knows Monsanto toxins better than Hawaii, a state that's already witnessed its fair share of pesticide testing.
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Far from a vacation destination, Hawaii has become dangerous and even deadly because of this excessive and extensive pesticide testing.
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Providing access to water would also be very helpful for the bees, and reducing pesticide input if at all possible.
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But urban noise pollution, habitat loss, pesticide use, wind farms and a fungal disease are causing bat populations to plummet.
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To protect his fellow Republicans and rehabilitate the party's brand, Gingrich then gaveled through strong pesticide and drinking water laws.
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"Industrial agriculture is the main culprit, due to heavy pesticide use and reduction of bee-friendly forage," Winston told me.
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Bald eagles are federally protected, having once toed the line of extinction due to hunting, pesticide use, and habitat loss.
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Coincidentally, the EPA also proposed changes to pesticide handling rules that would lift minimum age limits to handling these substances.
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These are crops that hasn't been treated by the pesticide, but neonics spread through water and flowed into nearby crops.
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"It was extremely disturbing to me," Ms. Hamnett said of the order she received to reverse the proposed pesticide ban.
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Jack Housenger, a biologist who served as the director of the E.P.A.'s pesticide program, had a more positive recollection.
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She now knew, she said, that the effort to ban the pesticide had been lost, something Mr. Jackson's emails celebrated.
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A list of fruits and vegetables and their "pesticide residue score" appears in the study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Still, the Environmental Protection Agency has found that the pesticide residues found on almost all crops are within acceptable tolerances.
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More generally, he says they should consider scaling down their pesticide use and cultivating bee-friendly plants near coffee crops.
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Potatoes can tolerate cold, drought and poor soil, and they need less water, fertilizer, pesticide and labor than other staples.
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In China, for instance, 21995 percent of suicides are suicides by pesticide; in India, the share is about 22005 percent.
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He had an organic pesticide business, he had a chain of movie theaters in the South for a long time.
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Decades ago, it inhabited large parts of California's San Joaquin Valley, an area today of intensive farming and pesticide use.
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Three years ago the city added cemeteries to the list of pesticide-free areas, said Ms. Komitès, the assistant mayor.
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She had used a pesticide, chlorpyrifos, to treat a flea infestation when she was unknowingly pregnant in the early 1990s.
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Investigators determined the cause of death was poisoning by carbofuran, a toxic pesticide, said Catherine Hibbard, the wildlife service spokeswoman.
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Concentrations of a neurotoxic residential-use pesticide dropped sharply in cord blood after the E.P.A. prohibited its use in 2001.
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In Kenya there only 5 light aircrafts being used to spray pesticide to fight the infestation, the Associated Press reported.
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It is Richard III, not Richard II. SCIENCE TIMES An article on Tuesday about the pesticide chlorpyrifos described acetylcholine incorrectly.
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Avid gardeners say it can also be mixed with pesticide and spread on garden stakes to ward off fruit flies.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest ag trade group, also wants to keep the pesticide available to farmers.
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The Huddersfield plant is owned by Syngenta, the pesticide giant based in Switzerland, which has not allowed paraquat since 21.
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Mr. Lacs has also been an adviser to Gremiagro, a trade group for pesticide producers that opposes action on paraquat.
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The EPA regulations address air quality guidelines, formaldehyde emissions stemming from composite wood products, and pesticide regulations, among other rules.
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In its suit, Earthjustice argues the agency relied too heavily on industry-funded studies when expanding use of the pesticide.
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Other clients have included Albemarle, which makes flame retardants; Dow AgroSciences, which makes the pesticide chlorpyrifos; Waste Management; and Monsanto.
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It's eerily reflective of Carson's warning on the massive die-off of multiple species as a result of pesticide use.
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This burger joint serves up organic meat, including beef, bison, turkey, elk and duck, as well as pesticide-free produce.
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For instance, the body allows the use of toxic pesticide paraquat, which the European Union has banned, under special circumstances.
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Leukemia, non Hodgkins Lymphoma and brain cancers are on the rise, both of which have been linked to pesticide exposure.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to ban a common pesticide that it says harms aquatic animals and environments.
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Among these, kale and spinach contained 1.1 to 1.8 times more pesticide residue in weight than other batches of produce.
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Acreage of milkweed, though, has been declining in recent years because of pesticide use and urban development, Ms. Pelton said.
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The epidemiology of pesticide exposure globally is not fully understood and most of the time underdiagnosed, according to the Pan American Health Organization, an international public health agency based in Washington, DC. "Pesticide poisoning cases are under-reported by 50 percent to 80 percent regionwide," reported the PAHO in 2011, referring to the Americas.
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Most states with legal medicinal and recreational cannabis still lack anything close to a pesticide regulation framework like those currently under development in Colorado, Washington and Oregon, which will eventually include not only a list of acceptable growing practices, but mandatory pesticide screening of all canna-products for pesticides before they go to market.
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Each month 500-600 people are certified for particular kinds of drone operation, such as photography, pesticide spraying or infrastructure inspection.
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After someone applied the pesticide -- aluminum phosphide -- under the mobile home, a family member tried to wash it away, said Capt.
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"Under the law, if there isn't sufficient science to demonstrate safety, then EPA is obligated to ban the pesticide," Faber said.
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The EPA approved new formulations of the pesticide, a weed killer sold by Monsanto Co, BASF and DuPont late last year.
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"If you could design an ideal pesticide, this is the stuff you're looking for," says Pamela Bachman, a toxicologist at Monsanto.
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California plans to phase out the use of the pesticide statewide in a process that could take up to two years.
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David Ige signed a pesticide bill Wednesday that includes a ban on all chemicals containing the insecticide chlorpyrifos starting in 2019.
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DuPont agreed in 2013 to pay Monsanto $1.75 billion over 10 years for rights to its genetically modified, pesticide-resistant soybeans.
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Aggressive action in the 1950s and 1960s, including the use of the pesticide DDT, certainly pushed them back for a while.
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Chlorpyrifos has been used as a pesticide since at least 1965, but it has raised controversy in the past few years.
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Last August, just before his birthday, McCaughey was poisoned by a pesticide used to fumigate his family's Palm City, Florida home.
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The plan would create and enforce strict health and safety regulations, including against pesticide exposure, poor air quality and excessive heat.
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After all, it's not every day you get to eat pesticide-free greens straight from the hand of a Goop goddess.
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An explosion at a pesticide factory in Xiangshui, a county in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, killed at least 78 people.
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China uses twice as much fertiliser and pesticide per hectare as the world average, contributing to catastrophic levels of soil pollution.
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Officials said someone sprayed a pesticide to kill mice under the home and later tried to wash it away with water.
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The larger the colony, however, the lesser the effect, suggesting that larger populations act as a buffer to offset pesticide exposure.
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California jurors deciding the company&aposs popular Roundup pesticide is responsible for contributing to the man&aposs non- Hodgkin&aposs lymphoma.
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BUT THERE WILL BE NO FIFTH CHANCE, even if that means pouring pesticide on every rose bush on the freaking planet.
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The EPA said it will continue an ongoing review of chlorpyrifos and make its next determination about the pesticide by 2022.
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Yet researchers who explore the deep nature of friendship admit the bond can have its thorns, bruise spots and pesticide traces.
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But the European Food Safety Authority found last year that the pesticide is unlikely to either harm DNA or cause cancer.
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Goldman said the pesticide is effective against the Anopheles mosquito, a night-biter that spreads malaria indoors while people are sleeping.
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Farmers' costs include imposts, pesticide tests and quality certification, all of which are usually handled by informal middlemen, driving up costs.
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But in the years since, many Aedes mosquitoes have developed resistance to DDT, making the pesticide a less suitable option today.
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Indeed, it has spent far more than other pesticide companies — nearly $14 million in 85033 alone — on political contributions and lobbying.
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Unfortunately, it's been hard to find in Saskatchewan recently; the pesticide takes six weeks to make, and it keeps selling out.
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Dealing with this both reduced fuel bills and improved the uniformity and effectiveness of things like fertiliser, herbicide and pesticide spraying.
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Among the projects it's working on: an organic pesticide with a large agricultural company and sweeteners for a major beverage company.
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In 2007, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pesticide Action Network petitioned the EPA to ban food uses of chlorpyrifos.
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Experts fret that if farmers use too much cheap pesticide to kill the worms, they may end up poisoning their crops.
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Strychnine, which is banned as a stimulant, is a highly toxic drug often used as a pesticide, particularly for killing rodents.
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The pesticide is also sprayed at night so that bees, which are necessary to pollinate flowers and crops, are not endangered.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded Wednesday that applying a common pesticide to certain crops harms the bees that pollinate them.
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During the war, chemical companies had sold the pesticide to the military to stop the spread of typhus by killing lice.
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On Wednesday, He published a study comparing bleach, tap water and baking soda in removing two pesticide residues: phosmet and thiabendazole.
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One ounce of hope for pro-health, anti-pesticide communities right now are the resistance movements rising up all across America.
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The findings Aderholt was specifically referring to involved glyphosate, a widely used pesticide that the agency declared "probably" carcinogenic last year.
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" 'The E.P.A. will not ban a widely used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities in children and other health problems,' " he read.
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The researchers explored whether the bed bug's genes were similar to the genes of other insect species associated with pesticide resistance.
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OrganiGram, too, announced a series of testing procedures throughout the weed-growth process to make sure the pesticide wouldn't slip in.
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From guzzling water to pesticide pollution, it's been long established that growing weed—legally or not—isn't great for the environment.
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Another key victory for big agriculture was the EPA's decision not to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, contradicting the agency's own recommendations.
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U.S. pesticide regulation law requires a final ruling by the administrative law judge within 75 days of receiving the hearing request.
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They were brought to the brink of extinction in the 1970s, victims of the pesticide DDT, which killed thousands of birds.
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He claims clouds of pesticide have been known to land Humboldt County trimmers in the hospital with rashes and heart palpitations.
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Teams in brightly colored jackets raced industrial drones and competed in events like delivering parcels and spraying plumes of mock pesticide.
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The Romanian authorities said they seized a ton of eggs possibly contaminated by fipronil, a pesticide, which had originated in Germany.
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In the Netherlands, the police arrested two suspects in an inquiry over the illegal use of the pesticide at poultry farms.
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Much of that decline, experts say, was likely caused by factors such as habitat loss or pesticide use, not climate change.
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While the chemicals are different, our letter to the EPA echoes Rachel Carson's dire warning on the dangers of pesticide use.
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To find out what control services are conducted in your area, check the map on the National Pesticide Information Center website.
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The spraying with pesticide by trucks and airplanes that knocks down nuisance mosquitoes cannot reach ones that have sneaked into buildings.
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The normal public health response to mosquitoes is attack: spray pesticide, eliminate breeding grounds and help people ward off their bites.
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The most common pesticide detected was Dacthal, also known as DCPA, and has been identified as a potential cancer-causing agent.
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Volumes of subtext are revealing: pesticide traces deep in nature, And sorry might not be enough for this Earth's dead heart.
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A Steep Hill study of the state's grass in September found that 86 percent of plants were contaminated with pesticide residue.
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Along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the CDC is urging Puerto Rico to control its mosquito population with aerial pesticide spraying.
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WASHINGTON — In the weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reject its own scientists' advice to ban a potentially harmful pesticide, Scott Pruitt, the agency's head, promised farming industry executives who wanted to keep using the pesticide that it is "a new day, and a new future," and that he was listening to their pleas.
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Within his first month at the agency, Pruitt denied the petition to ban the common pesticide chlorpyrifos, which laces our food supply.
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"In attempted suicide, which is considerably more frequent than completed suicide, pesticide poisoning results in temporary or permanent disability," the WHO said.
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Pesticide residue can remain on fruits and vegetables even after they are washed and, in some cases, peeled, according to the report.
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His company donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration celebration while lobbying his administration extensively on a host of issues — including pesticide regulation.
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People seriously got sick from a pesticide that Scott Pruitt, Trump's pick to head the EPA, didn't ban despite known health risks.
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After a comment period mandated by U.S. pesticide regulation law, Bayer will ask for a formal hearing to determine the pesticide's fate.
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After evaluating the pesticide's dangers multiple times — including in its November report — the Obama administration proposed banning using the pesticide on food.
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Still, his decision to reject a ban on a popular pesticide that's been shown to harm children's brains was a little surprising.
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Despite some interagency debate about conclusions by the chemical safety staff, a revised study still found that the pesticide should be banned.
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Brazil's CTC (Cane Technology Center) developed the GM cane variety that is resistant to the cane borer, which could reduce pesticide costs.
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Military forces have been deployed to help with pesticide spraying, while planes for aerial spraying are expected to fly over the region.
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That same month the agency announced it would not halt Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked with brain damage from being sprayed on crops.
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The dire outlook is the result of a number of driving forces including global warming, habitat loss to cities and pesticide use.
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The link to pesticides also has people worried about food safety, and the risk of pesticide residue on the food consumers purchase.
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The outlet reported the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency found that nearly 20 percent of samples had pesticide residues higher than permitted levels.
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Pruitt's ruling reversed a 2015 Obama administration plan to extend a 2000 ban on the pesticide that had covered most household settings.
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After rejecting the EPA's request, Bayer now expects the agency to issue a formal request to cancel its registration of the pesticide.
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In 2013, 23 Indian schoolchildren died after eating food contaminated with the pesticide monocrotophos, a substanace that belongs to the organophosphate family.
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Farmers Santhosh Kittur and Abhijit Kamath wanted to grow pesticide-free vegetables between the rows of the banana plots each separately owned.
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Seed coatings are not considered a "pesticide application" akin to spraying, because farmers buy the coated seed and then just plant it.
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This Oakland, California-based farmer's market gives back to the local community with fresh, organic, pesticide-free produce grown by black farmers.
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Traps have been set up in 268 areas in the county to capture and catalog mosquitoes and test them for pesticide resistance.
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Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticide commonly used in the US, although they have been temporarily banned in the EU since 2013.
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Farmers' costs include bureaucratic formalities such as imposts, pesticide tests and quality certification, all of which are usually handled by informal middlemen.
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Other work has suggested the technology might be used to cure HIV, curb world hunger, end pesticide use and save endangered species.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pesticide Action Network had petitioned the EPA in 2007 to ban food uses of chlorpyrifos.
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But he pointed to the loss of insects, the major food source for many birds, as a likely result of pesticide use.
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That this international code of conduct is non-binding is symptomatic of how difficult it is to control and manage pesticide use.
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A report from The Intercept noted this would apply to studies on toxic pesticide poisoning, or the Gulf oil spill, for example.
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This 60ml bottle contains 300mg of CBD, is totally vegan, pesticide and GMO-free, and easily fits in your backpack or purse.
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"I hope it does a lot of good," Ples Spradley, a pesticide specialist at the University of Arkansas, said about the changes.
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The group releases its "Clean Fifteen" list as well, highlighting the 15 produce items with the least amount of pesticide residue detected.
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The Department of Agriculture, for example, had been in charge of regulating pesticide use while also being required to promote agricultural production.
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The House voted along party lines Tuesday to approve legislation to loosen pesticide regulations in the name of fighting the Zika virus.
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But some consumers and environmental groups argue that GM crops boost pesticide use and pose threats to the environment and human health.
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Bayer, though best known in the US for its aspirin, has a major pesticide division, and also biotechnology, plastics, and health segments.
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One sample, had an "astounding" 22 pesticide residues, notes the EWG, a non-profit group advocating for better human and environmental health.
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Over my 40 years practicing pest management, I witnessed the influence of pesticide manufacturers and grower associations over government agencies and universities.
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The EPA announced an intent to publish in the Federal Register new pesticide safety training materials that are required under the rule.
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It has to do with whether or not someone is going to misapply a pesticide that will get in your drinking water.
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From 2010 to early this year, Adcock and Bray lobbied together for CropLife, which represents Syngenta and Monsanto, among other pesticide makers.
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Some fruits and vegetables with a low amount of pesticide residue include avocados, onions, dried plums or prunes, corn and orange juice.
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Then there is overfishing in the oceans, pesticide-induced problems with birds and other wildlife, including the bees and insects and pollinators.
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It claims that we're missing a "basic problem," and that we're wrong to believe G.M. crops increase yield or reduce pesticide use.
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The EPA announced an intent to publish in the Federal Register new pesticide safety training materials that are required under the rule.
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In June 2015, four siblings, ages 5 to 13, whose parents had left them in Guizhou Province, killed themselves by swallowing pesticide.
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Native Hawaiians filed formal federal complaints against the state of Hawaii, objecting to pesticide spraying near their communities, the Associated Press reports.
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Companies are working on both drones and sensors in drones, for example, that can image crop distribution, crop hydration, and pesticide coverage.
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And we nearly wiped it out during the 1950s with an intensive pesticide campaign (it eventually rebounded after eradication efforts let up).
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Ousted Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt repealed a ban on the pesticide chloryprifos, which evidence suggests causes developmental problems in children.
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In southern Africa, the pest devastated maize crops, with Zambia even deploying its air force to help spray pesticide over affected areas.
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California is developing regulations for marijuana farms including rules about water quality and pesticide use, but widespread water testing is not included.
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Several groups sued over the decision in June, asking a federal court to force the EPA to take action on the pesticide.
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" Jack Housenger, director of the E.P.A.'s pesticide programs, said, "In terms of Parkinson's disease, there's a lot of data out there.
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A federal appeals court is reconsidering its ruling last year that ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban a particular pesticide.
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He can, for example, reverse the ban on a pesticide that the E.P.A.'s own scientists say may damage children's nervous systems.
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An EPA report from earlier this summer notes that some forms of the pesticide sulfoxaflor can be "very highly toxic" to bees.
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HOUSE PASSES PESTICIDE BILL: The House passed legislation on Wednesday to loosen federal regulations on pesticides in a 256-165 vote. Rep.
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Monsanto – Monsanto's pesticide dicamba faces new restrictions in Tennessee, which has become the fourth state to limit use of the weed killer.
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Despite the high pesticide residues of spinach and kale, strawberries have maintained their place at the top of the Dirty Dozen list.
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Outside of the society, Ferenc heads the Council of Producers & Distributors of Agrotechnology, a pesticide group with its own political action committee.
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The group GUN, in agrarian Niigata, produced breathtaking land art by filling pesticide sprayers with pigment and spewing color across fresh snow.
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Soil contamination, caused by pesticide and fertilizer use, but also industry and waste disposal, is a big threat to China's food security.
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Habitat loss, along with heavy pesticide use, climate change and increasing urbanization are the main causes for declining bee populations, the study found.
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Though the pesticide levels were below the limit deemed safe for human consumption, there was still enough insecticide in there to harm pollinators.
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But they have a prescription to offer too: an environmentally friendly, natural pesticide to be applied twice a week until the damage subsides.
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The coalition does not include some of the most vocal anti-pesticide organizations, but Hayes did invite the insect-advocacy group Xerces Society.
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Albert Donnay (Toxicologist) hypotheses that prolonged exposure to a range of substances (carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, pesticide, etc.) can produce hallucinations consistent with haunting.
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"A drone would be a lot more precise and could apply the pesticide where it was needed, and presumably nowhere else," Hoelmer said.
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So, the study authors suggested that women trying to get pregnant go easy on high-pesticide produce, or opt for the organic versions.
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People who apply the pesticide have to wear chemical-resistant gloves, coveralls, and respirators, and avoid treated areas for one to five days.
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Silvia Fagnani, executive director of a pesticide industry group known as Sindiveg, said the appeal in Brazil would be filed by next week.
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But after Trump took office, his (now-ousted) EPA administrator Scott Pruitt rejected that plan and allowed growers to continue using the pesticide.
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"Utilizing the technology, the cost will go up because of these changes," said Andrew Thostenson, a pesticide specialist for North Dakota State University.
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Since 9003 pesticide use has more than doubled and the country now uses roughly twice as much per hectare as the worldwide average.
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On Tuesday, The American Academy of Pediatrics sent a letter to the EPA administrator requesting that he follow through with the pesticide ban.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will not ban chlorpyrifos, a commonly used pesticide linked with heath and developmental problems in children, the NYT reports.
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This could include exposure to pesticides, in particular a group called neonicotinoids which are suspected of harming honeybees (pesticide producers reject such claims).
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In Canada, scientists found that bees near corn farms were exposed to the pesticides year round, regardless of when the pesticide was applied.
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Both activities contaminate on a massive scale: coca farming because of its monoculture dependence on industrial pesticide, oil drilling because it's oil drilling.
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And so is crop intensification: Boosting yields by growing more food on the same area of land inevitably leads to more pesticide use.
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Scientists admit that conditions like cancer are difficult to link with pesticide exposure because those kinds of diseases can take decades to develop.
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There is no guarantee the government's crackdown on pesticide use in banana production will lead to potentially harmful chemicals being phased out altogether.
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While individual trees can be treated by injecting a pesticide, so far there are no answers to stop the overall march of destruction.
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We work with pesticide regulators and other decision-makers to help them formulate recommendations and implement policy reform aimed at phasing out HHPs.
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In March, the agency decided not to ban the pesticide, allowing it to continue to be used in certain amounts on specific crops.
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If farmers can irrigate only when necessary, and avoid excessive pesticide use, they should be able to save money and boost their output.
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Chlorpyrifos, made by Dow Chemical, is a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children, including developmental delay, reductions in IQ, autism, and ADHD.
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The increase has various causes, including Colombia's 53 decision, for health and environmental reasons, to stop aerial dusting of pesticide on coca plantations.
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The findings are part of the EWG's 2017 "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen," a list of the most and least pesticide-ridden foods.
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Jackson told career staff to deny a petition seeking to ban chlorpyrifos, the controversial pesticide that has been shown to damage children's brains.
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But it was the introduction of genetically engineered crops two decades later that fueled the sharp increase in the use of the pesticide.
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The Edmond family of Delaware was exposed to the pesticide and poisoned while on vacation in the Virgin Islands, the News Journal reported.
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A federal judge will let key witnesses testify in a lawsuit against Monsanto Co. claiming its Roundup pesticide causes cancer, Bloomberg News reports.
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Title IX, the "Poisoned Pollinators Provision," would exempt pesticide registrations from key requirements to protect imperiled species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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For the third straight year, strawberries top the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residues.
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"A combination of too much rains and the successful pesticide distribution to farmers have helped us to stop the armyworm invasion," Maganga said.
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They argue that the pesticide is widely used, would be expensive to replace and that the scientific conclusions about it are not strong.
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As Republicans work to change the bill and bring Democrats on board, Gibbs and his colleagues asked Obama to support the pesticide piece.
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In 2015, the pesticide cut A. aegypti populations by 99 percent in Florida's Manatee County and by over 90 percent in New Orleans.
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Of the two pesticides that He tested, the USDA's Pesticide Data Program shows only three presumed violations for thiabendazole and none for phosmet.
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And, similarly, a federal district court in California in 2018 rejected the EPA's use of a delay strategy to indirectly abandon pesticide regulation.
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And in April, a 69-year-old woman reportedly poured pesticide into a fish stew due to be served at a village event.
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The EPA, furthermore, normally only tests the active ingredient of each pesticide, not the inert ingredients that could increase the product's overall toxicity.
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Until now, the best weapon against disease-carrying mosquitoes in the United States has been outdoor pesticide fog sprayed by truck and airplane.
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Kale and spinach samples had 10 percent to 80 percent more pesticide residues by weight than any other crop, according to EWG data.
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About 70 percent of U.S. produce retains pesticide residues even after washing, according to a new study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
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Six additional incidents were reported across the state, according to Aimée Code, a pesticide program director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
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Several business groups, including pesticide makers and the National Association of Home Builders, recently expressed worry that Mr. Pruitt's proposal was overly broad.
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But by the Obama administration's final months, the agency moved for the first time to ban a pesticide largely because of epidemiological research.
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The pesticide DDT was ultimately banned after a comparison of museum egg specimens revealed that shells had grown thinner after it was introduced.
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The academy committee urged that federal pesticide law be fundamentally restructured to shield infants in the womb and young children from chemical harm.
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The European Union signed off on the deal in March after the companies agreed to sell off parts of DuPont's global pesticide business.
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That paves the way for more innovation — for example, a solar battery stick that can power a pesticide sprayer for a small farm.
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The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday decided against banning the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on fruits and vegetables.
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The cyanide that Nazi Germany preferred for its genocidal handiwork was known as Zyklon B, which began life as a pesticide and rodenticide.
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At the Economic Research Service, dozens of planned studies into topics like dairy industry consolidation and pesticide use have been delayed or disrupted.
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It was only 12 months ago that Dow Chemical was facing double-barrel trouble regarding its brain-damaging, endangered species-killing pesticide, chlorpyrifos.
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The government said it was investigating the pest's behavior in Chile and would give farmers a one-off payment to finance pesticide purchases.
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Naled, the pesticide used to spray communities in Florida, has been deemed to pose unacceptable health risks to humans by the European Union.
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Longstanding tensions with environmental associations have meanwhile deepened amid debates about banning the common weedkiller glyphosate and restricting pesticide use near residential areas.
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But experts say it is likely to reflect the insect situation in places like North America, where monoculture and pesticide use are widespread.
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While various international conventions — such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants — have been organized to regulate specific pesticide chemicals, and international agencies such as the FAO have issued guidelines, such as "Save and Grow," with suggestions for pesticide reduction, there is no comprehensive global regulatory framework to help guide policy for the transport, storage, and use of pesticides.
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The Clean Fifteen Produce that had relatively fewer pesticides and lower total concentrations of pesticide residues was placed on the group's "Clean Fifteen" list.
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"They didn't want people learning about me and my anti-pesticide stance, my anti-GM crop stance…it's a form of censorship," Samp says.
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His ministry was registering pesticides for use against the fall armyworm as "no pesticide was previously registered to be used against it," he said.
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In short, Oxitec's bugs have been deemed more like a pesticide—used to suppress wild mosquito populations—than a drug used to prevent disease.
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But scientists have found a new threat to the reestablished condors: extremely high levels of mercury and the pesticide DDT in the birds' blood.
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The move was based on tests showing the EPA-registered pesticide, which mimics extracts from the chrysanthemum flower, prevented tick and other insect bites.
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Lenhart said it's up to each individual state or mosquito control district in the United States to test for pesticide resistance in their areas.
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" It said the move was done "to protect the health of farm workers and others living and working near where the pesticide is used.
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But in the Bay Journal's case, unlike the Midwest Pesticide Action Center or Winrock International, the grant was partway through when it was cancelled.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has had a decades-long debate about the pesticide, restricting its use over the years but not banning it altogether.
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The pesticide, launched in 2008, is used to control yield-damaging moths and worms in more than 200 crops including almonds, oranges and soybeans.
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"Going organic does reduce pesticide exposures, which is a big benefit, but it doesn't do much when it comes to heavy metals," Houlihan said.
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An apology Grenale Williams and the employee he worked with have been charged and pleaded guilty in federal court to improperly using a pesticide.
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In 2004 construction workers on the Beijing metro suddenly fell ill when they started tunnelling under a site previously occupied by a pesticide factory.
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Despite progress in creating bug-resistant crops, pesticide is still one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways to ensure good produce yields.
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Investigators are probing about 1,200 total complaints involving pesticide use, which includes weed killers, said Terry Walker, director of the Arkansas State Plant Board.
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Zeng also said the government should raise the barriers to pesticide registration and increase penalties for those making unlicensed products or selling counterfeit pesticides.
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Van der Walt says it is difficult and costly to eradicate, with pesticide prices ranging from 200 rand ($15) to 600 rand per hectare.
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There is also concern that if farmers can no longer use neonicotinoids, they'll switch to a less-understood pesticide that could be more damaging.
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Scientists believe bees are particularly vulnerable to a kind of pesticide called neonicotinoids, which are widely used to keep bugs off crops and gardens.
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Pesticide use has risen as genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds approved in early 2000s have started to lose efficacy, farmers and government officials say.
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Some of the more than 600 farmers and labourers treated for pesticide poisoning over the past few months are still in hospital, he added.
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The government has already launched a month-long inspection campaign into hazardous chemical production after a blast at a pesticide plant killed 78 people.
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The Commission last month started an in-depth investigation of the takeover, saying it was worried about competition in various pesticide and seeds markets.
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The unfortunate political consequences can be seen, for example, in the debate over glyphosate, a key ingredient in the world's most widely used pesticide.
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If you still want to sub your berries for the organic version (which may still carry some pesticide residue), feel free to do you.
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Two groups have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision not to ban a pesticide linked to nervous system and brain disorders.
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The NRDC and Pesticide Action Network have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to force the agency to do so.
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He has swiftly rolled back regulations on everything from pesticide use to methane emissions, all while downsizing the agency's workforce to Reagan-era levels.
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In 2000, due to health concerns, the EPA had banned chlorpyrifos from residential uses, but allowed big farms to continue to use the pesticide.
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China's pesticide output in December also hit the lowest on government records at 263,000 tonnes, down 5.1 percent year on year, the data showed.
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According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), these foods are the most likely to be contaminated with synthetic pesticide residue.
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The research confirmed previous studies connecting maternal pesticide exposure to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental disability marked by social, communication and behavioral challenges.
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The findings led investigators to conclude that folic acid might reduce, though not eliminate, an increased risk of autism associated with maternal pesticide exposure.
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Pruitt's decision reversed the former Obama administration's finding that the 52-year-old pesticide is potentially too risky to keep spraying on our crops.
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Based on women's responses to dietary questionnaires, researchers ranked their pesticide residue exposure from fruits and veggies into five groups, from lowest to highest.
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And more emphasis on greenery has meant a mass of environmental regulations on things like pesticide use and crop rotation that farmers find irksome.
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The toxic pesticide can seep into soil and streams, killing plants, wildlife including threatened species, and affecting humans who hunt and consume the animals.
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The court ordered the EPA to revoke both the residue tolerances for chlorpyrifos and all approvals for use of the pesticide within 60 days.
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The House voted along party lines Tuesday to approve a bill that would loosen pesticide regulations in the name of fighting the Zika virus.
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Consuming fruits and vegetables with a high amount of pesticide residue was positively associated with the probability of losing a pregnancy, the researchers found.
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On Sunday morning, the common pesticide Naled was sprayed via planes in areas of Dorchester County in South Carolina, according to The Washington Post.
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In Parkinson's alone, dozens of studies link the disease to pesticide exposure, but many or most would not be admissible under the proposed rule.
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Researchers have found a link between exposure to the pesticide and brain growth problems in children, conclusions that Dow and its allies disagree with.
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The government is adopting a zero tolerance approach to food safety and will crack down on illegal additives including illegal pesticide use, he added.
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The platform offers yield predictions, pesticide application monitoring and other features for potato growing, which helps sellers manage contracts and supports farmers' decision-making.
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Then everything changed in 1939, when a Swiss chemist named Paul Hermann Muller discovered the pesticide DDT, which proved stunningly effective at killing insects.
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Farmers are using artificial intelligence to help grow food by combatting disease and pests, oftentimes made worse by climate change, pesticide use, and monocropping.
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To keep the pesticide on the market, under E.P.A. guidelines, the agency needed to have a "reasonable certainty" that no harm was being caused.
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As a possible compromise, Ms. Hamnett's team had been talking to Dow about perhaps phasing out the pesticide instead of imposing an immediate ban.
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We're left to contend with the consequences of our own warfare, such as pesticide-resistant German cockroaches and bedbugs, and antibiotic-resistant MRSA bacteria.
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From 2010 to early this year, Ms. Adcock and Ms. Bray lobbied together for CropLife, which represents Syngenta and Monsanto, among other pesticide makers.
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However, pesticide levels on both organic and non-organic foods are so low that they aren't of concern for consumption, according to the USDA.
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Wheeler said barring the cancer warning will ensure "the information shared with the public on a federal pesticide label is correct and not misleading."
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Even then, washing didn't remove pesticide residues that had penetrated deep into the peel or through the peel to the flesh of the fruit.
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Mr. Zheng invested in planters, pesticide sprayers and other equipment, including a new, shiny red harvester, parked in a lot behind his modest home.
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And his lifting of environmental regulations, causing more infants in farm states to suffer brain damage from the Dow Chemical Company's nerve gas pesticide.
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Pruitt's decision matches what Dow Chemical Co., which sells the pesticide under the brand name Lorsban, sought in a January letter to the agency.
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For example, the EPA in in July announced it would allow for the expanded use of sulfoxaflor, a pesticide it considers toxic to bees.
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A senior police officer told Reuters laboratory tests showed the presence of monocrotophos - a pesticide which attacks the nerves - in food and vomit samples.
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Some of the most compelling evidence linking a widely used pesticide to developmental problems in children stems from what scientists call a "natural" experiment.
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If you're buying fresh flowers for garnishing or eating, head to the farmers market or try to find an organic/pesticide-free florist. 1.
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PARIS — Decades ago, banana plantations around Central America sprayed a powerful pesticide with a terrible side effect: It sterilized workers on a mass scale.
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Another pesticide commonly found on unregulated cannabis is chlorpyrifos, which has been linked to brain damage in children and was recently banned in California.
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Oregon Democrats are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to defend its decision to expand the use of a pesticide considered harmful to bees.
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In order of pesticide concentration, 2019's Dirty Dozen list is: strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery and potatoes.
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Most people who are not employed in agriculture are exposed to pesticide residues through food, said Chavarro, who was not involved in the study.
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In addition, wind and rain can be heavy, helping to spread the plant and the insect, as well as interfering with pesticide spraying schedules.
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They walk the rows, looking for signs of pesticide use with a magnifying glass (if a plant looks too good, it's probably been treated).
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It's also odd that Hakim would single out France: Pesticide use there has been declining, but it's been increasing in other parts of Europe.
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Precisely why caffeine—which, being lethal to many insects, functions as a pesticide in some plants—was selected against by evolution remains an open question.
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Ozier and Sargent agreed, pointing to the country's ban on DDT use (a harmful pesticide) in 1972, the Endangered Species Act and increased public awareness.
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He said the man who lives at the mobile home and who applied the aluminum phosphide on the ground got the pesticide from a friend.
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Last year, an 8-month-old Canadian girl died after her mother used phosphine tablets as a pesticide in their home, CNN partner CBC reported.
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On David Passafiume's organic farm an hour north of Toronto, there's a crew of hundreds of workers who help spread a natural pesticide to crops.
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The bald eagle almost disappeared from the United States decades ago, but habitat protection and the banning of the pesticide DDT led to its recovery.
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In its November report, the EPA said that children are exposed to dangerous levels of the pesticide, thanks to its residue on fruits and vegetables.
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By the time I visited Wynwood, daily pesticide and larvicide spraying from planes, trucks, and hand sprayers had wiped out most traces of the bugs.
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LOS ANGELES — California regulators moved Wednesday to ban chlorpyrifos, a controversial pesticide used on almond, citrus and grape crops in the nation's largest agricultural state.
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S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt rejected an attempt to ban the pesticide for use on food crops such as fruits, vegetables and nuts.
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Thanks to the reduced use of chemicals (pesticide use dropped 50 percent in some cases), it's easier for farmers to meet EU countries' regulatory limits.
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Abel Salinas, a former health minister, said on RPP that the tragedy was a reminder that pesticide containers should never be reused in food preparation.
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The pesticide that was used contained aluminum phosphide, a chemical that, when mixed with water, creates phosphine gas, the newspaper said, citing local fire officials.
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AN EXPLOSION on March 21st at a pesticide factory in Xiangshui county, Jiangsu province, killed at least 78 people and injured more than 600 others.
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"It's very hard to say definitively what's causing their decline," Hanken said, noting that habitat destruction, pesticide poisoning and climate change are all likely factors.
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Air-quality rules and pesticide limits rely on analyses of confidential medical records—which Mr Pruitt may now label as suspect and try to undo.
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The government is also adopting a zero tolerance approach to food safety and will crack down on illegal additives including illegal pesticide use, he said.
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Sometimes the end product of such a metabolic pathway is something humans have a use for, such as a hormone, an antibiotic or a pesticide.
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Furthermore, the bill specifically requires any pesticide used to already be approved under and applied in compliance with The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
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Traditionally, drones have been used for mundane tasks like photography, mapping and pesticide spraying, as well as drone racing, drug smuggling, pizza and burrito delivery.
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The agriculture ministry has proposed that new pesticide manufacturers must be located in chemical industry parks to reduce their environmental impact, the Economic Daily reported.
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Photo: Jeff Camaratti/Getty Images (Gizmodo)Starting in the mid-20th century, the pesticide DDT—used in homes and on crops—devastated bed bug populations.
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The other two pesticide makers asking the EPA for the reports to be withdrawn are Adama, which makes diazinon, and FMC Corporation, which makes malathion.
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Proponents of the measure said it would be a pesticide-free way to reduce Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the Keys and South Florida in general.
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The book predicted that spring mornings would be silent and devoid of wildlife if something was not done about the dangers of unbridled pesticide use.
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The GOP's latest proposal would provide $2628 billion to stop the spread of the virus, while dropping partisan provisions involving Planned Parenthood and pesticide use.
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But environmental and public health groups said those proposals don't go far enough and filed a federal lawsuit seeking a national ban on the pesticide.
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The watchdog group publishes its "Dirty Dozen" list annually, in which it ranks the 12 produce items that contain the highest amount of pesticide residues.
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According to Harvard professor Chensheng "Alex" Lu, who has conducted intensive studies on honey bee populations, pesticide-use is directly correlated to colony collapse disorder.
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Agricultural interests strongly support Pruitt's decision, saying chlorpyrifos is a widely used pesticide and the scientific studies used by the Obama administration were not sound.
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The prospect of higher pesticide costs on top of weak crop prices is "worrisome," said Joe Ericson, president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers Association.
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Rachel Carson's exposé of pesticide use in her 1962 book Silent Spring began the modern environmental movement, leading to the ban on DDT in 1972.
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As the EPA neared a decision on the pesticide, chlorpyrifos, top agency officials met with a farming industry group, according to newly released internal documents.
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The documents indicate that several weeks before the pesticide decision was announced, career EPA staffers and the politically appointed leadership met to discuss the options.
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"The armyworm is the biggest challenge to farmers at the moment and the government has distributed a contact pesticide to eradicate the worms," Chikwenhere said.
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"Farmers in general are gaining," with less pesticide use and a bit higher yield, academy committee chairman Fred Gould said at a Tuesday news conference.
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The Environmental Protection Agency later reversed a plan passed by the Obama administration to ban a pesticide called chlorpyrifos, which Dow manufactures, Mother Jones reported.
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Earlier generations fought to phase out the pesticide DDT, asbestos insulation, PCBs, chlorofluorocarbons and other materials found to be harming the environment and human health.
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But Dow Chemical and DuPont agreed to combine in December, further consolidating the pesticide industry and limiting Syngenta's opportunities for a merger of its own.
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Gibbs's pesticide legislation would remove the requirement that sprayers obtain the EPA's permission to spray pesticides near waterways if the state has already given approval.
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The EPA did not respond to additional questions from The Hill about how it would monitor the impacts of its new guidelines for the pesticide.
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"The European Commission must now focus on developing a strong pollinator initiative that boosts bee-friendly habitat and helps farmers cut pesticide-use," it said.
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The bill would also relax environmental laws by allowing businesses to spray pesticide near lakes, rivers and other waterways without notifying the Environmental Protection Agency.
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"While we are moving forward, the tragedy is that children are being exposed to chlorpyrifos, a pesticide science has long shown is unsafe," Goldman added.
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Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) is pushing for a measure loosening pesticide regulations to be included in a funding bill to fight the Zika virus.
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Several states sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday over the agency's decision to allow further use of a pesticide linked to brain damage.
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The agency argued the ban was needed "to prevent the significant harm this pesticide causes children, farm workers and vulnerable communities," according to a statement.
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The agency argued the ban was needed "to prevent the significant harm this pesticide causes children, farm workers and vulnerable communities," according to a statement.
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The EPA, to be clear, has never sufficiently protected the people in Hawaii, or any other state, from the harmful effects of toxic pesticide exposure.
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The president cited innovation to reduce pesticide use as one way of revamping French agriculture, along with proposals to offer better price terms for farmers.
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Exemptions from the minimum age requirement already exist for family members of the owner-operators of agricultural establishments, and private or commercial pesticide applicator businesses.
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Over time his farm subsidies became one of the largest corporate-welfare programs in the government, while doing little to prevent overfarming and pesticide use.
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Many food producers are struggling to manage threats to their crop like disease and pests, made worse by climate change, monocropping, and widespread pesticide use.
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This year SFG began working with farmers to take their food into kindergartens, ensuring the children eat produce that is locally grown and pesticide-free.
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The pesticide had previously been banned from most commercial uses in households as an insecticide, but was still legally used to combat insects on farms.
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In March, the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, rejected a staff recommendation to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which scientists believe has harmed farm workers and children.
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"It is not often that we hear about impacts of this magnitude," said Rick P. Keigwin Jr., the director of the E.P.A.'s pesticide program.
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The damage estimates were presented during a meeting Wednesday called by the E.P.A. and attended by pesticide manufacturers, state agriculture officials, farmer groups and environmentalists.
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Bees accumulate traces of pesticide residues and heavy metals, and it has been suggested that they can be used as indicators of urban pollution levels.
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The other category includes incidental contaminants that may be toxic, such as persistent pesticide residues in cotton or toxic byproducts created during the manufacturing process.
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It was nearly two decades after medical marijuana became legal in California that state legislators in 2015 passed regulations on licensing, taxation and pesticide standards.
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Five states and the District of Columbia have joined a lawsuit over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) March decision not to ban a controversial pesticide.
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A federal appeals court rejected a request from environmental groups to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision not to restrict the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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The groups were dealt a setback this week when a federal appeals court rejected a petition to force the Trump administration to ban the pesticide.
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But a government representative from India — which itself operates a pesticide manufacturer — was more voluble in defending atrazine than a Syngenta lobbyist who was present.
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Earlier this month a summit was called by the European Union's food safety commissioner, after a contamination scare over eggs infected with the pesticide fipronil.
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But the agency has previously referred to the pesticide as "highly toxic to bees" -- something that a number of Oregon Democrats in Congress had noticed.
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Though the process of re-evaluating the safety of the pesticide had stretched on for years, at long last, chlorpyrifos seemed to be going down.
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And, according to documents published on the website of the Center for Responsive Politics, it also sent a lobbyist to Congress to defend the pesticide.
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The same pesticide was responsible for the death of 23 schoolchildren in the eastern state of Bihar in 2013, one of India's worst mass poisonings.
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Farmers are unhappy with Macron, a former investment banker, over issues like pesticide restrictions and a landmark free trade deal brokered with South American countries.
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The most recent E.P.A. analysis concluded that children were being exposed to up to 140 times the safe levels of the pesticide through food alone.
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But the agency has previously referred to the pesticide as "highly toxic to bees" — something that a number of Oregon Democrats in Congress had noticed.
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The Oregon Democrats also pushed the EPA to "reverse the trend of issuing emergency exemptions" that allow important restrictions on the pesticide to be circumvented.
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A national group representing pediatricians says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put children at significant risk by refusing to restrict uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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The contaminated eggs, originating mainly from the Netherlands, have been found to contain fipronil – a popular pesticide used to treat parasites commonly found in poultry.
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Similarly, in South Korea, a ban on the herbicide paraquat was followed by a 50% decrease in suicide deaths from pesticide poisoning from 2011-2013.
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The new study points to a cocktail of contributing factors, including pesticide use, habitat loss and lack of plant diversity, disease, parasites, and global warming.
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