27.02.2015
- The US House of Representatives, now with a Republican party majority, is seeking to make good on its pledge to declaw the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Earlier this week...
20.10.2014
- An analysis by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that neonicotinoid (neonic) insectides do not increases soybean yields. The Agency has been reviewing the...
16.10.2014
- Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta has petitioned the US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the legal tolerance for residues of several crop protection agents...
08.08.2014
- Twelve US coal mining states, including West Virginia, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, have...
31.07.2014
- Neonicotinoids (neonics), the pesticides temporarily banned in Europe in crops attractive to bees, have been found commonly in streams throughout the US Midwest, according to a new...
25.07.2014
- US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has told Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the agency's plan to require mandatory cuts in carbon...
11.07.2014
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to prohibit the use of certain chemicals that it said "significantly contribute to climate change," where safer, more...
26.06.2014
- Following earlier action by the EU, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to publish guidelines on safer alternatives to the flame retardants now used in...