Bee-Killing Pesticides May Get New Restrictions From the EPA

Bee-Killing Pesticides May Get New Restrictions From the EPA

The bees are dying and we need to ban neonicotinoid pesticides before they kill them all, taking away a third of the crops we rely on for food with them. The European Union announced a two-year ban in 2013, so why doesn’t the United States? While it’s not an outright prohibition, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it’s accepting public comments on a proposed label change that would create

Canadian miner TMAC Resources plans IPO on TSX

[Reuters] – TMAC Resources, which is currently developing the Hope Bay gold project in Canada’s far north, has begun paperwork on an initial public offering and plans to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange soon, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The offering would be the first pure IPO on the TSX in over a year, as the pullback in metal prices has sharply dented investor confidence

Chevron pays reported $5M to family of Pennsylvania well fire victim

By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Chevron Corp. has paid a reported $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year by the parents of a worker who was burnt to death in a gas well fire in western Pennsylvania. Local media reported the $5 million settlement, saying it had been approved by a judge in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh earlier this month. John Gismondi,