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Oregon’s Department of Agriculture began phasing out the use of chlorpyrifos in 2020. Now, the state will ban most of its uses this month — with some exceptions.
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A major UC Merced study and survey detail the harsh conditions many of California’s farmworkers experience at home and work. The issues are under a spotlight following the recent mass shootings at two mushroom farms.
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency angered environmental groups with its approval of the joint use of two herbicides as one product. So the…
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Concerns about aerial spraying of pesticides on Oregon forest land reached a new level recently, when a court ordered Applebee Aviation to stop spraying…
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The University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program put a new class on its schedule in the academic year now ending... a class combining environmental…
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Side-by-side comparisons show Oregon's pesticide rules on forestry spraying are weaker than in other states. Those rules played a part in the spraying of…
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Even staunch supporters of the timber industry got angry when pesticides sprayed on a tree plantation landed on people in Curry County in 2013--people who…
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Jackson County's vote in May to ban GMO crops overshadowed a vote on a nearly identical measure in Josephine County. Now Josephine County voters are…
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It's not easy to say "neonicotinoid pesticide," perhaps harder still to pass legislation regulating it. The Oregon Legislature backed off new regulations…
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The killing of tens of thousands of bees in the Portland area last year sparked widespread concern about the use of pesticides. And the concern translated…
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More than 50 years after Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," we're still debating the proper use of pesticides. And the debate often puts…
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Public forests are managed with limits on their uses and are required to keep detailed records. Private forests, on the other hand, have to follow laws…
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The bodies of 50,000 dead bees no longer litter the parking lot of a Portland-area shopping center.But the impact of last June's bee kill is still being…