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U.S. Right to Know, a consumer advocacy organization, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  Public Citizen Litigation Group, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., is representing...

Two United Nations experts are calling Tuesday for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming,...

A former Environmental Protection Agency official may not be able to escape testifying about his alleged role in helping Monsanto to suppress inquiries...

Representatives from over 100 countries, including virtually all areas of food production, manufacturing, retailing and soil science have, for the first...

The Vietnamese government has officially announced a ban on Syngenta’s paraquat, a highly hazardous pesticide (HHP) and Dow Chemicals’  2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic...

Scientists at the University of York in England have discovered for the first time that the sequence of exposure to pesticides and pollutants significantly...

The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country’s most important farmlands – from California’s...

Increasing consumer demand for organic and non-GMO foods led to a sharp rise in organic grain imports in 2016—prompting food manufacturers to explore...

The 2016 University of Illinois Plant Clinic herbicide resistance report has shown that glyphosate herbicide resistance and PPO Inhibitor herbicide resistance...

Rothamsted Research has received permission from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to carry out GM Wheat field trials on...