(Beyond Pesticides, November 22, 2024) With numerous campaigns at the state and federal level to ban the weed killer paraquat and nearly 6,000 individual lawsuits alleging exposure to it causes ...
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Highway 97 reopens after toxic spill shuts down California town
Traffic resumed on Highway 97 and Siskiyou County residents allowed to leave their homes again after a big rig spilled ...
(Beyond Pesticides, October 1, 2024) While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received accolades for its August 7, 2024, decision to ban the herbicide Dacthal (or DCPA—dimethyl ...
Paraquat is frequently used on crops such as corn, shown in this field in Carbondale, Illinois. This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta ...
April 15, 2025 Update: Syngenta, manufacturer of the weedkiller paraquat, which has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, has entered into an agreement to potentially settle thousands of lawsuits ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A California lawmaker announced a new bill Wednesday to ban the weed killer paraquat, which has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and other health risks especially for ...
Joe Biden may be a lame duck but he is much sought-after in his final days in office, as pleas for last-minute actions grow. Among them: a petition signed by more than 53,000 people urging Biden to ...
The long-running dispute over EPA’s approval of paraquat has entered a new phase as the manufacturer of the popular herbicide and several opponents of its use on farm fields filed comments about a ...
Multinational agriculture technology company Syngenta announced last Tuesday (March 3) that it will cease global production ...
A new law will require California pesticide regulators to reexamine the use of one of the most widely used weedkillers in agriculture. Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday, AB 1963 ...
Hyderabad: Warangal MP Kadiyam Kavya on Friday raised concerns in the Lok Sabha over the rising cases of paraquat poisoning ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California’s pesticide regulators released preliminary findings today linking the herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife and human health harms, including thyroid disease and ...
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