Steve Davies

Farming activities must be ongoing in order to avoid the full reach of the Clean Water Act, according to a federal judge€s decision.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2016 - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration should go through a public rulemaking process before imposing new Process Safety Management (PSM) regulations on fertilizer dealers who handle anhydrous ammonia, a committee report accompanying a

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2016 € FDA€s food recall process does not adequately protect public health, the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department has determined.

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2016 € Gene drives € which use genetic information to eliminate undesirable traits in an organisms € hold great promise for solving public health, ecological or agricultural problems. But that doesn€t mean society should rush to release them

- EPA is taking a €holistic€ approach to managing herbicide-resistant weeds, releasing new guidance last week that the agency says is €intended to provide herbicide users and registrants useful strategies that, when implemented, will slow herbicide resistance and

A proposal to allow in-crop application of dicamba on cotton and soybeans genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide has sparked lively debate among farmers, farm and food safety groups.

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2016 - The latest effort to reauthorize glyphosate for use in Europe failed Monday when a European Commission committee could not muster a qualified majority to temporarily extend approval of the active ingredient used in Monsanto s Roundup.

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2016 - EPA@s decision to cancel the registrations of flubendiamide, marketed by Bayer's Crop Science Division as Belt, has been upheld by an agency administrative law judge (ALJ).

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2016 - An EPA draft document assessing the ecological risks of atrazine that was mistakenly posted online a month ago has now been officially released. The content and conclusions of the 520-page report, which is stuffed with nearly 200 tables and maps&#

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