Paraquat exposure and its link to Parkinson’s disease is leading to policy battles within California and nationwide.

“For 50 years FIFRA’s glaring failures have allowed dangerous levels of harm to U.S. farmworkers, public health and our most-endangered wildlife,” said J.W. Glass, EPA policy specialist at the Center ...

After decades of lax oversight, the EPA has suspended re-registration for DCPA, a herbicide tied to lifelong health risks, ...

The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has ruled in favor of Bayer in a Roundup lawsuit. In a press release, Bayer officials ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 28, 2024) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pesticide labeling requirements fail to adequately communicate acute toxicity levels to the public, as evidenced ...

However, the court pointed to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which prevents states from ...

EPA Authors Describe Categorization Approach To PFAS To Identify Potential Candidates For Testing And Human Health ...

We were able to call attention to the fact that Congress enacted an express “uniformity” provision and to point out the close parallels between FIFRA’s preemption provision and similar ...

Monsanto case, unanimously finding that the state-based failure-to-warn claims in this case are expressly preempted by the FIFRA statute. This decision creates a circuit split with prior decisions ...

Now it appears all this work may have been in vain.” AgLogic tried to gain a “Special Local Needs” approval (also called a FIFRA Section 24(c) approval) for use of aldicarb on Florida citrus in 2017 ...

In 2023, Brown hosted the national State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group conference, sharing UTIA’s work on ...

Bayer said an appeals court ruled in favor of its Monsanto unit in a case alleging the agricultural-chemical maker should ...