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06.10.2018 Business

Organic lawn care company wants to change mindsets

Persuading customers to apply less harmful, synthetic pesticides to their lawns has proved a greater challenge than Jason Perez expected.

06.10.2014 Environment

DEC’s strategy for safeguarding L.I. water: more research

After 16 years of research and debate, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has released its strategy for safeguarding Long Island’s water supplies from pesticide contamination. But that final...

03.05.2014 Environment

Cuomo proposing controversial shift in pesticide tracking

Water quality advocates are up in arms over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to roll back a 1996 law that requires commercial users of pesticides to report information to the...

09.07.2013 Business

Real Estate: A restorative approach to farming

It’s easier to work with Mother Nature than to fight her, according to some North Fork farmers. These farmers don’t use conventional farming methods – applying synthetic pesticides and...

07.15.2013 News

New weather stations help time pesticide usage better

Researchers with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County are hoping new weather stations will help local farmers better plan pest control applications, thus cutting down on chemical use...

04.11.2013 News

DEC’s pesticide ‘strategy’ criticized at public hearing

Environmental advocates, farmers, and elected officials stepped up to the microphone one by one last week, voicing support for or concern about the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s draft...

04.11.2013 Editorials

Editorial: Is it time to rethink entire approach on pesticides?

As surely as spring brings warmer days and greener fields, there’s no end in sight to the tug of war over the use of pesticides and curtailing their use...

04.03.2013 News

DEC hearing on pesticide management plan set

The battle between environmentalists and farmers over a ban on the use of certain pesticides is heating up, and tonight’s DEC hearing at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead is...

03.20.2013 News

DEC releases blueprint to protect Long Island’s groundwater

More than 100 different pesticide-related chemicals have been detected in Long Island’s groundwater since 1996, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. To prevent future pesticide contamination, the...

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