The subject of six lawsuits filed in three states, paraquat is widely used in the agricultural industry and, sadly, often causes illnesses to those least able to care for themselves: workers. Workers ...

A new law will require California pesticide regulators to reexamine the use of one of the most widely used weedkillers in agriculture. Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday, AB 1963 ...

Paraquat is a highly dangerous product still manufactured and sold in the United States. Manufacturers have for some time known the direct connection between paraquat and Parkinson’s Disease, but ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A conservation group in California is pushing for a statewide ban on paraquat after a preliminary report released Monday indicates a potential link to human birth defects.

April 17 (Reuters) - A key expert witness in lawsuits claiming that Syngenta's herbicide paraquat causes Parkinson's disease cannot testify in court, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has affirmed its finding that the “weight of evidence is insufficient” to link exposure from use of paraquat to Parkinson’s Disease in humans. In a preliminary ...

A new wave of lawsuits alleges that the weedkiller paraquat causes Parkinson's Disease. The evidence continues to undermine this claim. Environmental activist groups and trial lawyers have launched a ...

Occupational exposure to the herbicide paraquat was not found to be associated with a greater risk of Parkinson disease or increased risk of mortality related to other causes. Amid ongoing legal ...

The long-running dispute over EPA’s approval of paraquat has entered a new phase as the manufacturer of the popular herbicide and several opponents of its use on farm fields filed comments about a ...