When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden's term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on ...

A small, downy chick recently became one of the latest in the growing Channel Islands bald eagle population. Here's what to know.

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

Although these materials kill insects by contact, they possess a stability and persistence which confer a protective effect far exceeding that of any previously known contact insecticide.

As a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund, she helped ban the insecticide DDT, starting in Suffolk County. It was particularly deadly to bald eagles. And in 1999, President Bill Clinton ...

after a federal ban on the pesticide strychnine that began on on Sept. 7, 2024. “We’re asking the provincial government to use the Saskatchewan First Act to reintroduce the use of strychnine ...

The European Food Safety Agency banned Paraquat in 2007 due to its risk to “human and animal health”. Critics of the pesticide also link the handling of Paraquat to an increased risk of Parkinson’s ...

A study by the Government's Pesticides Safety Directorate found the banned chemical DDT in a high proportion of samples of Anchor butter sold in the UK. Other chemicals, mainly fungicides ...

In its most recent report on the state of local birds, for example, the Connecticut Audubon Society warned that neonicotinoids are “the new DDT” — a reference to the chemical that was ...

“In that respect, the Commission will establish a principle that the most hazardous pesticides banned in the EU for health and environmental reasons are not allowed back to the EU through ...

MARYLAND - A proposed ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” in pesticides is gaining traction in Maryland, but it is facing pushback from some ...