(Beyond Pesticides, November 14, 2019) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under pressure from chemical companies, released a proposal on Tuesday to further weaken protections regarding 23 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 16, 2010) Pyrethroids, among the most widely-used home pesticides, are winding up in California rivers at levels toxic to some stream-dwellers, possibly endangering the ...

WASHINGTON— Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed today to weaken protections for 23 pyrethroids, a class of insecticides linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and known to ...

This study is part of the CPES that was first conducted in Seattle (the Children Pesticide Exposure Study – Washington, CPES-WA) from 2003 to 2004, and then repeated in Atlanta, GA (CPES-GA) from 2006 ...

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Environmental exposure to common pesticides may cause boys to reach sexual maturity earlier, researchers have found. Environmental exposure to common pesticides may cause boys to reach sexual maturity ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its policy regarding the type of insecticide used on bed nets to prevent malaria. Against the backdrop of growing resistance of disease-carrying ...

A new study has identified a scent receptor in mosquitoes that helps them sniff out and avoid trace amounts of pyrethrum, a plant extract used for centuries to repel biting insects. These findings ...

The Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District has been spraying our town for several months with one of the so-called “safe” or “natural” pyrethrum pesticides to kill the mosquito that causes ...