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Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Environment

PetSmart selling unregistered pesticide products despite state order

December 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
About two months after the state’s environmental agency ordered a major pet products retailer to immediately cease selling unregistered pesticide products, many of those products remain on the retailer’s shelves and website. “It’s illegal to sell a product that makes... + read more
Daily Report: Environment

Fumigant maker pulled disputed product facing court defeat

March 23, 2012, 12:05 AM
When Arysta LifeScience abruptly pulled methyl iodide off the market this week, it cited the “economic viability” of the controversial fumigant, which is used to sterilize soil before crops are planted. But at a hearing in an Oakland courtroom Wednesday, another factor emerged... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Environment

Memo points to industry pressure on pesticide

October 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Environmentalists say a newly uncovered memo shows how the California Department of Pesticide Regulation gave in to industry pressure when it approved the controversial soil fumigant methyl iodide for use in California agriculture at levels more than 100 times higher than those its own scientists... + read more
California cotton growers will be affected by new pesticide ban.
Daily Report: Environment

EPA pesticide ban puts cotton growers on edge

August 18, 2010, 12:05 AM
The federal government announced on Tuesday a ban of a pesticide commonly used on food crops such as citrus, peanuts and sugar beets because of concerns about the chemical's effect on young children who may eat foods tainted with the chemical. The ban will take immediate effect on all... + read more
Daily Report: Environment

Safeguards against new farm chemical too weak, scientists say

June 14, 2010, 12:27 AM
California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical to sterilize the soil of strawberry fields, but state records and interviews with scientists raise questions about whether workers and nearby communities can be adequately protected from the highly toxic chemical. ... + read more
Farmworkers in the Salinas Valley
Daily Report: Environment

Warning about strawberry field chemical ignored, scientists say

June 7, 2010, 12:11 AM
California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk. The Department of Pesticide Regulation... + read more
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