When faced with a pest problem, gardeners often wish for a solution that comes in a spray bottle and not the safer option of organic pesticides. It’s true that many poisons sold in garden centers will ...

Pesticide safety is extremely important. If the directions on the label are followed, both the applicator and the environment ...

Discussing the use of pesticides in the garden can generate strong reactions in some gardeners. Used properly, pesticides can be helpful, but if overused or used improperly, they can be harmful to the ...

The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) previously reported widespread residential insecticide use in urban communities in New York City. Research suggests that pyrethroids are ...

Creamy-colored and just a couple of centimeters long, the cotton bollworm doesn’t look like much. But around the world, this highly mobile moth has farmers breaking out in a sweat. Females can lay ...

WASHINGTON — A pest control company illegally used toxic pesticides and allowed unlicensed employees to apply chemicals, according to a new lawsuit announced by Attorney General Brian Schwalb on ...

Using a pesticide that is not classified in Ontario and not registered for use in Canada As an exterminator performing a fumigation, failing to have one other licensed exterminator present during a ...

A Maryland-based pest control company has agreed to pay Washington, D.C., nearly $140,000 after allegedly polluting the city with toxic chemicals. District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s ...