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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Additional protections for pollinators are included in an EPA proposal that would allow use of sulfoxaflor, whose registration was pulled last year after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled the agency had not properly evaluated the insecticide�s effec
Farmers and beekeepers have worked together for generations, but widespread concern over the health of agriculture s smallest livestock has placed strains on that relationship and left some beekeepers on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. The latest evidence that commercially ra
"Glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet," a World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization panel has concluded.
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2016 - A lawsuit challenging EPA0s regulation of neonicotinoid-treated seeds will proceed following a federal judge0s rejection of EPA0s motion to dismiss the case.
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2016 - House Agriculture Committee leaders want to know why EPA posted ° and then removed from its online regulatory dockets ° risk assessments on two widely used but controversial herbicides.
Half of all adults read the nutrition facts label always or most of time, according to the latest Health and Diet Survey from the Food and Drug Administration.
The fire that led to a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer plant in West, Texas, was set intentionally, qualifying it as a criminal act, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has concluded.
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2016 à The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will develop regulations to update its Process Safety Management Standard but wonàt exempt ag retailers from PSM requirements in the meantime.
The Bee Informed Partnership reported in its annual survey Tuesday that beekeepers lost 44 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year ending March 31, up from 40.6 percent in the previous year.