Giacobbi s Cucina Citta, Don Tequila among Buffalo restaurants adding outdoor patios bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must either disallow the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food or find safe levels of exposure. Chlorpyrifos is a widely used pesticide for corn, soybeans, alfalfa, cotton, fruit and nut trees, Brussels sprouts, cranberries, broccoli, and cauliflower as well as other row crops.
In 2019, the same court ordered EPA to decide whether to ban the pesticide, which the Trump administration chose not to do. In March 2017, EPA denied a petition that asked the agency to revoke all pesticide tolerances (maximum residue levels in food) for chlorpyrifos and cancel all chlorpyrifos registrations.
EPA again must decide on chlorpyrifos pesticide use farmprogress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from farmprogress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WASHINGTON – Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced legislation this week to facilitate farmer participation in soil carbon markets.
The bill will help power plants, refineries, and other polluters to purchase carbon credits from farmers and other agricultural entities. The legislation is being touted as an agriculture-based climate solution by incentivizing farmers to sequester carbon in the soil. However, the credit scheme will allow polluters to offset their emissions, instead of reducing and eliminating them. Last fall, 222 farmer, farmworker, environmental justice, climate, environmental, faith-based, animal welfare, and other groups today wrote to Members of Congress to urge them to oppose to the bill.