ON AUGUST 2, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new restrictions and bans on the use of methyl parathion and azinphos methyl, two pesticides used widely and safely on fruits and certain vegetables. The next day, representatives of the American Crop Protection Association, the American…

YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY created an environmental panic, those deformed frogs that have starred in media scare stories since 1995, when a group of them were first discovered in a Minnesota pond by schoolchildren on a field trip. They looked bizarre. Extra limbs and missing limbs were the most…

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