According to a 2023 study, rates of suicide by pesticide in China declined dramatically following the ban of paraquat products. According to the EPA, paraquat is highly toxic to humans and “one ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos on more crops because it is linked to ...

“This is the most significant step the EPA has taken to increase transparency with the public about pesticides and their harms,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center ...

Seven of these pesticides are used as a protective coating for crops like soybeans, cotton, and corn. Of the list of EPA-banned pesticides, six are made by Syngenta. These products contain the ...

The assessment’s release comes just two months after the EPA reapproved the pesticide’s use for another 15 years. “Finally the EPA has been forced to acknowledge atrazine’s far-reaching harms,” said ...

Pesticides have to be registered with and approved for use by the EPA before they can legally be ... including in Quaker Oats and Cheerios. EWG did not list the other brands or products tested.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a multistate coalition of nine attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to ...