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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Pesticide drift is also a threat from indoor agricultural facilities such as greenhouses; a 2020 study finds that children living near floricultural greenhouses spraying organophosphate and carbamate ...

National pesticide program targeting grasshoppers violated environmental law, Portland federal court rules By Alejandro Figueroa (OPB) Aug. 16, 2024 1:08 p.m.

Depending on whether the pesticide is sprayed from the air or on the ground, current EPA regulations generally ban pesticide applicators from spraying within 25-100 feet of any people, although ...

(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 ...

Last month, Boulder County Commissioners approved a weed management plan after much dissent from the public on pesticide use and aerial spraying. Commissioners Claire Levy and Marta Loachamin voted to ...

More than 350,000 pounds of dangerous agricultural pesticides were sprayed on more than 363,000 acres of crops on America’s national wildlife refuges in 2018, a 34% increase over the acreage sprayed ...