Articles by Steve Davies

A panel of experts assembled at MonsantoÀs request is challenging a determination by a research arm of the World Health Organization that glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans.

EPA violated restrictions on using appropriations for grassroots lobbying when it employed social media to promote the proposed Clean Water Rule, the Government Accountability Office said in a legal opinion.

A frustrated group of House Republicans from California today declared drought relief legislation for their parched state dead for the year.

EPA has been ordered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to respond by the end of 2016 to a petition seeking a total ban on uses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos.

Demographic changes in the marketplace and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns make it imperative that farmers - and the dealers who supply them -- embrace a sustainable approach to farming, a former General Mills executive told an audience of several hundred at the Agricul

USDAps Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has given Monsanto the go-ahead to market corn genetically engineered for increased ear biomass.

Lawyers on both sides of a dispute over corn shipments rejected by China are sparring over where and how the litigation should proceed, meaning that any resolution could be years away.

EPA plans to cancel its registration of Enlist Duo, a Dow herbicide containing 2,4-D and glyphosate, after becoming aware of new data on @potential synergistic effects@ of the two active ingredients on threatened and endangered plants, the agency said in a court filin

Lawmakers and witnesses at a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing today sparred over the way the EPA measures the benefits and costs of its regulations

All sides in the ongoing debate over pesticide use are still sorting out the implications of a federal appeals court decision to revoke the registration of sulfoxaflor, but one thing seems clear: Before approving any new chemical formulations, EPA...