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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Significant levels of the world's most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on Wednesday, in groundbreaking research on the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's Roundup."It is ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - DuPont was ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop selling its Imprelis herbicide, following many complaints by customers that the treatment has killed thousands of trees.The EPA said the order also outlines conditions under which DuPont ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it would again delay issuing a final limit on smog pollution opposed by manufacturers and many Republican lawmakers until the Obama administration has finished reviewing it.In December, the agency said it would ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it would again delay issuing a final limit on smog pollution opposed by manufacturers and many Republican lawmakers until the Obama administration has finished reviewing it.In December, the agency said it ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children living in high-stress households are more vulnerable to lung damage from traffic pollution than children whose parents are less stressed out, according to the results of a new study."It makes sense," said Dr. Jane Clougherty from ...
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's government on Friday green-lighted Anglo-French oil and gas producer Perenco's $359 million plan to build and operate a gas pipeline in the Maranon Basin, saying an environmental impact study had been approved.The 207-km (128.6-mile) pipeline will be located ...
PUNE, India (Reuters Life!) - On a regular school day, four-year-old Kush Bhattacharya can leave his mathematics class to run barefoot on grass, hide from his friends in a cave made of cow dung and return to recite nursery rhymes in a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Renewing urban waterways will be the focus of a new environmental initiative by the government, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.The multi-agency program will start with a seven-city pilot program to revitalize urban waterways in under-served communities before ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway backed Indonesia's drive to slow deforestation on Thursday under a $1 billion deal with Oslo even though Jakarta said it faced a "maze" of reforms and lacks maps to pin down exact conservation areas."Any nation can do more. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it has extended the comment timeline by 30 days on a draft rule on reducing mercury emissions and other toxic pollution from power plants but left the target for finalization of the ...
