pesticide

California regulators recommended new restrictions on Thursday, November 15, 2018, on a widely used pesticide blamed for harming the brains of babies.

A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, August 9, 2018, that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos (clor-PEER-i-fos) on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.

Scott Pruitt's rollbacks as head of the Environmental Protection Agency already are being felt by farmworkers and some others across America.

A widely used pesticide is placing bumblebee populations at an increased risk of extinction, a new study from an Ontario researcher suggests.