Recent EPA actions and label changes for products with methomyl fall short in adequately protecting endangered species and public health.

Prosecutors said that Zackery Barfield understood the dangers of feeding the dolphins methomyl, a harmful pesticide, but chose to do it anyway

Greece’s organized crime unit has joined the investigation into a mass poisoning of black vultures and other wildlife at Dadia National Park, authorities said.

Adolescents in California, after their mothers experienced prenatal pesticide exposure, are linked to impacted menstrual cycles.

Zackery Brandon Barfield, 31, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in prison.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sharing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) final biological opinion (BiOp) for the pesticide methomyl. The final biological opinion released today only covers species under FWS’s purview. Under the Endangered Species Act...

Objectives To assess pesticide exposure and understand the resultant health effects of agricultural workers in Northern Thailand. Methods This was a cross-sectional study. We quantified exposure t...

Pesticide poisoning in animals is a rising forensic issue due to widespread chemical use. This study analyzed stomach contents from 44 deceased animal …

(Beyond Pesticides, October 31, 2019) Last week the U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must assess the risk eight toxic pesticides pose to protected organisms: atrazine, carbaryl, methomyl, and simazine as well as rodenticides brodifacoum, bromadiolone, warfarin and zinc phosphide. The plaintiffs, Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) asserted that EPA and its then administrator Scott Pruitt violated duties under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by not consulting with the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service in registering these pesticides. The history of this case extends over 8 years. Last year, the court rejected EPA’s attempts to dismiss the lawsuit. According to CBD’s press release, “Under the agreement the agency must complete assessments of four pesticides, including atrazine, the nation’s second most-used pesticide, by 2021. Assessments of four rodenticides, including the widely used rat poison brodifacoum, must be finalized in 2024.” Stephanie Parent, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said “This important step is only the start. We still have work to do to make sure the EPA addresses the harms of all pesticides, as the law requires. EPA was created after […]

(Beyond Pesticides, June 6, 2014) On June 4,  after a two year dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a coalition of conservation organizations and fishing groups, an agreement  was finally reached to set reasonable no-spray buffer zones to protect salmon from five harmful insecticides: diazinon, chlorpyrifos, malathion, carbaryl, and methomyl. These buffer zones protect salmon habitat by stopping aerial spraying of pesticides within 300 feet, and ground based spraying within 60 feet of salmon supporting waters. According to the agreement, it also provides detailed notifications to state regulators, pesticide applicators, farmers and the public about the mandatory no-spray buffer zones. These stipulations will remain in place until the National Marine Fisheries Service has completed their analysis of the impacts of those five pesticides.  Then, once the analysis is completed, EPA will execute permanent protections based on their findings. EPA is required by law under the Endangered Species Act to protect what little salmon are left on the Pacific Coast. Salmon are a  critical indicator of how well we are maintaining both marine and terrestrial ecosystems, because their habitats are in streams, lakes, rivers, estuaries and the ocean. The fish  are extremely sensitive to changes in water quality, and […]

(Beyond Pesticides, September 1, 2009) On August 26, 2009, Bayer CropScience announced plans to reduce by 80 percent the storage of methyl isocyanate (MIC), the chemical used in pesticide production that caused the explosion in Bhopal, India and Institute, West Virgina. Two workers were killed in August 2008 when the chemical, an intermediate chemical used in the production of aldicarb, carbaryl, carbofuran, methomyl and other carbamate pesticides, exploded at a Bayer facility in Institute, WV. Thousands died in a Bhopal in 1984. Advocates point out that even if Bayer follows through with its 80% reduction promise, it would still allow up to 50,000 pounds of MIC to be stored on site. This would be similar to the amount of the chemical present in the 1984 Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemical) explosion in Bhopal, India. Last summer, when a pesticide tank exploded in West Virginia, comparisons between the site’s potential risk and the Bhopal disaster, in which an explosion and leak killed thousands, were drawn. Currently, the U.S. plant has the capacity to store more up to 40,000 pounds of MIC above ground and 200,000 pounds below ground. Bayer says it will eliminate all above ground storage. Bayer Cropscience […]

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Zackery Brandon Barfield opened fire while two elementary school-age children were on board and, separately, while more than a dozen fishermen were aboard boats he operated, prosecutors said.

A man in South Korea is reportedly facing jail time for allegedly poisoning his business partner with pesticide-laced coffee over a dispute related to more than $816,000 in crypto investment losses. The Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office has accused a man in his 30s of adding the pesticide methomyl to his business partner's drink during a meeting at a café in November, local news outlets…

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A Panama City man has been sentenced after violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act after killing dolphins, according to the Department of Justice.