Nestle will tighten quality controls on the coffee beans it buys, after tests flagged levels of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate that were close to regulatory limits.
A mayor banned pesticide use on the farms surrounding his village. Even though he was prosecuted for doing so, dozens of other mayors have followed his lead.
Work to clean up nonresidential properties contaminated with lead and arsenic related to a former pesticide company will not start until 2021, under a plan now open for public comment.
Special investigation: During the 1990s workers were told not to worry about breathing in the poison – but years later they suffer debilitating illnesses.
The world's most widely used weed killer was once seen as one of the safest pesticides. Now it is blamed for causing cancer. Yet the scientific evidence remains disputed.
More than 20 farmworkers were sickened Sunday by direct or indirect exposure to a toxin at a farm near Parma. Idaho State Department of Agriculture is investigating the cause.
