Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over Supreme Court fight, agency records show

Top US regulators met with Bayer’s CEO last year to discuss “litigation” issues – including “Supreme Court Action” over its glyphosate weed killer – just months before the Trump administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer’s case at the high court, internal government records show.

EPA takes partial step to ban chlorpyrifos in a move called “unconscionable”

By Carey Gillam

The long and winding regulatory road for a pesticide known to be harmful to developing babies took another turn on Monday as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was planning to only partially ban the insecticide chlorpyrifos in farming.