The Department of Justice sides with Monsanto on whether federal law preempts state-law duty-to-warn suits against pesticide manufacturers, setting up an important test of the Court's view of federal preemption.
Glue traps are a cheap and effective pest control tool. Naturally, San Francisco is considering banning them.
About 20 years ago, many American bees did die. Then that steadily diminished—but hysteria in the press continued.
The congressman's "Glue Trap Prohibition Act" would make it illegal to sell glue traps or even use them in the home.
The chemical company has agreed to create a $10 billion settlement fund
A new study finds no dramatic and widespread economic effects from colony collapse disorder.
This will fail and more pressing problems will be neglected
On the other hand, Google's Verily is debugging Fresno.
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?
Activists decry failure to adhere to technology-killing precautionary principle
Anti-GMO types are ecstatic over regulatory ruling that the herbicide is a probable human carcinogen.
Genetically modified mosquitoes combat disease
Disinformation specialists are everywhere
Researchers develop a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
Two-year ban on pesticides considered
Judge will consider dismissal of demands for significant changes
Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today's public policy debates.
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