Agricultural uses of the pesticide imidacloprid would be banned under a proposal in Canada intended to protect insects that are a food source for fish, birds and other wildlife. Read more

The debate over the EPA’s upcoming decision on a controversial crop pesticide has gone global, and some of the U.S.’s top trading partners are raising strong concerns. The agency is inching closer to a court-ordered deadline on regulating chlorpyrifos, Dow AgroSciences’ widely used pesticide to kill insects on food crops.[…]