Over the concerns of its own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency continues to approve a controversial pesticide introduced to U.S. markets shortly before the honeybee collapse, according ...

Pesticide companies and the Center for Food Safety are pleased with a legal settlement that involves canceling 12 neonicotinoid registrations and evaluating the effects of two neonics on endangered ...

It’s not just the State and Defense departments that are reeling this month from leaked documents. The Environmental Protection Agency now has some explaining to do, too. In place of dodgy dealings ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Jan. 5 – Responding to calls for the removal of clothianidin pesticides from the market after internal EPA ...

The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably negative effect on honeybees, it disrupts the growth of bumblebees and threatens the ...

Large-scale field studies into the banned neonicotinoid seed treatment clothianidin have concluded it is not harmful to bees. Bayer CropScience, which manufactures clothianidin, carried out a series ...

A few weeks after honeybee keepers in the southern German state of Baden Württemberg reported a wave of sudden honeybee deaths, federal authorities have ordered a suspension on the sale and ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is considering granting “emergency” approval of a bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide for use on as many as 125,000 acres of ...

Many people don’t think that the collapse of bee populations is as big a mystery as it’s made out to be. An EPA memo, leaked last month, reveals that a commonly used pest-control chemical can disrupt ...

Commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed a petition Wednesday, asking federal regulators to suspend use of a pesticide they say harms honeybees. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...