A version of this story ran in the April 2017 issue. People in Texas farm country say they are under assault from crop dusters indiscriminately spraying chemicals. An Observer investigation finds that ...

It’s been nearly two years since an errant blast of a dangerous chemical doused the tiny Panhandle town of Quitaque, but the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) hasn’t done a thing to punish the ...

Jessica Burgoyne, leveraging a deep background in research methods and a passion for legal issues, distills complex legal concepts into accessible insights. With over 100 published articles, her work ...

Paraquat is a widely used weedkiller. It also may be a serious health risk to its users -- notably, but not just, farmers and their employees. To borrow from English as spoken by the late U.S. Defense ...

Thousands of farmers are suing the pesticide's manufacturer, which says it "rejects the claims" that the weed killer is linked to the progressive neurological disease Getty Thousands of U.S. farmers ...

Paraquat is a chemical herbicide, or weed killer, that’s highly toxic. It’s also known by the brand name Gramoxone. Paraquat is one of the most common herbicides used today, but it can cause fatal ...

New California legislation seeks to permanently ban paraquat, a powerful and widely used weedkiller that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and other serious health issues. Assembly Bill 1963, ...

WASHINGTON— More than 350,000 pounds of dangerous agricultural pesticides were sprayed on more than 363,000 acres of crops on America’s national wildlife refuges in 2018, a 34% increase over the ...

A chemical manufacturer facing legal action over alleged links between its pesticide and Parkinson's Disease ignored key health records in studies. Syngenta insists there is no evidence of a Parkinson ...

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...