Mr. Kyle Kunkler has been appointed the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticides at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP).

New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has decided not to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on produce. That's despite evidence previously compiled by EPA showing it could pose risks to consumers.

The EPA, which regulates pesticides in the U.S., defines a pesticide as any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pest, ...

The EPA rejected a petition by environmental and public health groups to ban a widely used pesticide that has been linked to neurological damage in children, though a federal court said last year ...

In 2010, Bayer Crop Science, then the sole U.S. distributor of the pesticide, reached an agreement with the EPA to phase out its use because of safety concerns. When the EPA began assessing the ...

EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will make the most recent 10 years of pesticide incident reports available to the public in a searchable database to be updated ...

The other EPA-banned pesticides (two from Bayer and four from Valent) contain clothianidin, a neonicotinoid that's thought to be slightly more toxic than thiamethoxam. One of Bayer's now-banned ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday that it is proposing a new slate of protections for 27 species that are most vulnerable to pesticide use.

70 countries have banned this pesticide. It’s still for sale in the U.S. Paraquat, one of the most widely used pesticides in the U.S., has drawn scrutiny for its possible links to Parkinson’s ...

San Diego County is increasing mosquito spraying in La Mesa to counter West Nile virus. Treatments are scheduled early Monday ...