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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
As California faces one its worst infestations on record and grapples with a historic budget deficit, Newsom is proposing to fundamentally change the way government regulates pesticides, say industry advocates.
A federal appeals court says it doesn’t have jurisdiction over a challenge to dicamba registrations brought by soybean and cotton growers, leaving the herbicide's fate in the hands of a pair of district courts entertaining somewhat differing lawsuits.
Environmental justice advocates came out in force to workshops on the Newsom administration’s proposal to alert residents ahead of pesticide applications.
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting is underway in Atlanta, and the president of the nation’s largest ag group is keeping the pressure on the Biden administration to deal with supply chain disruptions and remove barriers to U.S. ag exports.
Environmental groups seeking regulation of pesticide-coated seeds have gone to court again on the matter, seeking an order requiring EPA to directly address the issue.
Conservation groups urge Newsom not to delay new regulations * DWR: No ‘appreciable change’ on water deliveries from new plan * COVID-19 aid uncertain for ag
The Environmental Protection Agency will not revoke tolerances for chlorpyrifos, an insecticide environmental and farmworker groups say is a dangerous neurotoxin and should be banned.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2017 - The EPA is pushing back against a New York Times report that describes some of the internal deliberations leading up to the agency’s decision to deny a petition that sought to ban the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos.
