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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 3, 2013) Last week, Syngenta and Bayer CropScience proposed an action plan to forestall pending European Union (EU) restrictions on their neonicotinoid products that have ...

In response to legal action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is cancelling registrations for 12 pesticides containing neonicotinoid. Cancellations are part of a legal settlement brought ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 14, 2016) Bayer CropScience, revising its stance, has decided to concur with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) preliminary risk assessment of neonicotinoids and ...

Out of concern for bees, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on May 20 that the registrations for 12 neonicotinoid-based products used as pesticides in agriculture would be canceled, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For the German chemical giant Bayer, neonicotinoid pesticides—synthetic derivatives ...

The European Court of Justice ruled in favor of a Belgian beekeper, Nature & Progrès Belgium and Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe to close a loophole that allowed companies like Bayer to produce ...

New assessments by the European Food Safety Authority confirm the risk of three neonicotinoids to bees, EFSA said last week, and may lead to a permanent ban in Europe of the insecticides. The three ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. And that may be very bad news for honey bees, which remain in a dire state of health, ...

Italy is now the fourth European country after Germany, Slovenia, and France to suspend use of Bayer CropScience's neonicotinoid pesticides. Italian regulators say they are setting up a monitoring ...

Last week I wrote a piece about the worrying phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder, a complicated problem that is decimating bee populations worldwide, and the theorized role of a a group of ...