Pesticides

Disposal can be expensive for a small business, so the state Department of Agriculture is offering farmers, landscapers, pest control operators or other businesses a chance to turn in any stockpile of potentially toxic substances on Sept. 30 for free.

Agrochemicals company Monsanto on Thursday pleaded guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on research crops on Maui in 2014 and agreed to pay millions,…

Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide that’s in wide use around the world; it’s legal in 49 US States, and its use was legal in Hawaii until a couple of weeks ago,…

A group of eleven Kaua‘i citizens recently released a draft report about pesticides on the island. The Joint Fact-Finding Study Group was convened by the…

More than 700 people, many traveling from the neighbor islands, submitted testimony on a House bill to regulate pesticide use by large commercial…

The House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection conducted a hearing yesterday on pesticide applications around schools and hospitals. As HPR’s…