Evaluation Used to Support Registration of Neurotoxic Chlorpyrifos Found To...
(Beyond Pesticides, November 20, 2018) Scientific conclusions used to support the registration of the insecticide chlorpyrifos were flawed and omitted key health impacts, according to a fresh analysis...
View ArticleCalifornia Criticized for Adopting Inadequate Measures to Restrict the Highly...
(Beyond Pesticides, December 4, 2018) In mid-November, the state whose agricultural operations used more than 900,000 pounds of chlorpyrifos in 2016 (down from two million pounds in 2005) moved to...
View ArticleHelp Get Neurotoxic Pesticide, Chlorpyrifos, Out of Agriculture
(Beyond Pesticides, January 22, 2019) Earlier this month, U.S. Representative Nydia Velásquez (D-NY) introduced The Ban Toxic Pesticides Act, H.R.230 which bans the insecticide chlorpyrifos from...
View ArticleNew York Bans Chlorpyrifos, Pressuring EPA to Impose Country-Wide Protections...
(Beyond Pesticides, May, 7, 2019) Last week, the New York State legislature voted to phase out and eventually ban the use of the neurotoxic insecticide chlorpyrifos. The vote, 44-18 in the state Senate...
View ArticleTake Action: As EPA Fails to Act, States Take Up the Responsibility to...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 20, 2019) The bans of chlorpyrifos in three important agricultural states show the support for a ban of the chemical nationwide. Hawai’i banned chlorpyrifos a year ago with a...
View ArticleEPA Allows Continued Use of Neurotoxic Insecticide Chlorpyrifos on American Food
(Beyond Pesticides, July 22, 2019) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will permit the continued use of a known neurotoxic insecticide on the food the Americans eat, the agency announced...
View ArticleBrain Function Damage from Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides, including...
(Beyond Pesticides, August 30, 2019) The indictment of organophosphate pesticides gained more traction with the publication, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, of a new research...
View ArticleMajor Manufacturer of Chlorpyrifos Drops Out of Market, But EPA Continues to...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 12, 2020) Corteva, a company spun-off from DowDupont, will stop producing chlorpyrifos by the end of this year as a result of declining sales. Despite the move being in the...
View ArticleMaryland Legislature Passes Limited Ban on Chlorpyrifos Insecticide
(Beyond Pesticides, March 24, 2020) Last week, Maryland became the latest state to prohibit use of the brain-damaging insecticide chlorpyrifos, after a measure cleared both the state Senate and House....
View ArticleCourt Requires EPA to Respond to Petition to Ban Toxic Pesticide in Pet Products
(Beyond Pesticides, May 7, 2020) On April 22, 2020, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 90 days to respond to Natural Resources Defense...
View ArticleStudy Shows Brain Effects during Fetal Development Linked to Common Pesticide...
(Beyond Pesticides, July 10, 2020) A study published in June 2020 in Environmental Health journal is especially concerning for people who become, or plan to become, pregnant. It concludes that...
View ArticlePesticide Exposure Triggers Headaches and Other Cognitive Issues Among Youth...
(Beyond Pesticides, November 25, 2020) New research from the Centre for Environment and Occupational Health Research at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, finds a link between pesticide...
View ArticleNew Mexico Bill Will Protect Children from Toxic Pesticides Where They Learn...
(Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 11, 2021)—New Mexico State Senator Brenda McKenna introduced the Public Schools Pesticide Management Act (PSPMA) (SB 326) in order to protect school children from...
View ArticleGlyphosate-Based Herbicides and Sustainable Agriculture Do Not Mix!
(Beyond Pesticides, April 29, 2021) Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are incompatible with sustainable agriculture goals, according to a recent scientific literature analysis by scientists at Tufts...
View ArticleStop EPA’s Racist Policies that Disproportionately Harm Farmworker Children’s...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 17, 2021) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has less than two months to decide whether to cancel or modify its registration of the brain-damaging organophosphate...
View ArticleCanada Quietly Bans Chlorpyrifos, While EPA’s 60-Day Deadline For Action...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 19, 2021) Last week Health Canada quietly announced its intent to cancel all remaining registrations of the brain-damaging insecticide chlorpyrifos. The decision by Canada’s...
View ArticleParents of Harmed Children Sue Manufacturer of Brain-Damaging Insecticide...
(Beyond Pesticides, July 14, 2021) Corteva (formerly DowDupont) is facing a potential class-action lawsuit after several California families filed suit claiming that the use of the insecticide...
View ArticleStudy Adds to 40 Year Analysis Linking Brain Cancer to Pesticide Exposure
(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2021) A study by Claremont Graduate University finds exposure to agricultural pesticides increases brain cancer risk up to 20 percent. This study expands on a 1998...
View ArticleCommon Mosquito Pesticide Exacerbates Health Issues Associated with Zika Virus
(Beyond Pesticides, September 28, 2021) A widely used mosquito pesticide may exacerbate the effect of the Zika virus on fetal brain development, according to research published by an international team...
View ArticleDegenerative Lung Diseases Associated with Atrazine Exposure, Worsened in...
(Beyond Pesticides, December 2, 2021) A study published in Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry finds atrazine (ATR) exposure worsens lung disease outcomes in individuals with idiopathic (spontaneous)...
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