Mound parent Rob Roy, president of the Ventura County Agricultural Assn., also described the complaint as unusual. He said he had not heard of such an action being taken in at least 20 years.

The Environmental Protection Agency has narrowed a rule to protect individuals from pesticide spraying by establishing one 25-foot “Application Exclusion Zone” for all ground spray ...

Pesticides are an important management tool for mosquito control as well as for other pests that impact agriculture, Laura Melissa Guzman, assistant professor of biological sciences and ...

Pesticides take a significant toll on global health and the environment, the researchers point out. A recent study found that 31% of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from ...

More than 200 Iowans filed complaints last year about drifting agricultural chemicals as erratic weather in late spring and early summer makes it hard for applicators to find time to safely spray.

EWG found more than 4,000 elementary schools located within 200 feet of a crop field where pesticides could be applied, leaving kids at risk of inhaling or ingesting the toxic drift.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a major victory for health and environmental groups, California’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a statewide pesticide-spraying program violates the law by failing to study and ...

Landowners asked for help managing a grasshopper infestation, but there was pushback to a government plan to spray pesticide. Now, ranchers are left wondering how to control the ravenous insects.

Experts have warned that if the EPA were to bring back dicamba, the results would be devastating—as they have been in the ...

The chief of Bucks County's mosquito spraying program shared more details this week about why and how they manage these pests ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 28, 2023) A study published in Science of The Total Environment finds agricultural communities encounter chronic and measurable pesticide exposure regardless of seasonal ...