Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Methyl iodide, a highly toxic pesticide intended for large-scale plantings of ...

A small crowd of activists chanted this verse on Monday outside the recently vacated San Francisco offices of the pesticide company Arysta Lifescience, maker of methyl iodide. Your support powers ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pesticides usually do their bug killing away from public view. But one such poison, a ...

When Arysta LifeScience abruptly pulled methyl iodide off the U.S. market this week, it cited the “economic viability” of the controversial fumigant, which is used to sterilize soil before crops are ...

I proposed the use of methyl iodide because it will not destroy the ozone layer as does methyl bromide, the fumigant it replaces. Much like other potent materials that are part of our everyday lives, ...

Bob Moon: Regulators here in California just approved the use of a controversial pesticide. And if you like strawberries, or anything with strawberries, here’s why you might care: California grows 90 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its plan to approve a highly toxic fumigant for strawberries and other high-value crops after California officials, labor unions, ...

The comment period for weighing in on a petition to ban the controversial chemical methyl iodide — an EPA-approved crop fumigant developed for strawberry production — is winding down this week. Those ...

Environmentalists and farmworkers challenged approval of a toxic fumigant and carcinogen for use on California crops Monday and urged Gov. Jerry Brown to reverse the decision. The coalition of ...

When Annette Danzer and her husband moved into a house surrounded by brush and strawberry fields near Salinas, they were drawn by the rural feel and closeness to nature. Three years later, the couple ...

AT THE BEGINNING of October, the Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of the highly toxic and controversial fumigant methyl iodide to control soil-borne diseases and pests, primarily in ...

Despite protests, the EPA approved the use of this potent poison years ago, but a lawsuit moving through the courts could change that. When researchers want to intentionally create cancerous cells in ...