Pesticide honcho for top green job
A former president of a pesticide manufacturing company has been nominated as a regional head of the US Environmental Protection Agency. In the second week of October, Elin D Miller, former president of the North American division of Arysta LifeScience was named to head EPA's Region 10, based in Seattle.

Side effects of biotech major Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, brought to light recently, have worried environmentalists. In a test in simulated shallow ponds, the herbicide killed 98 per cent tadpoles,

New variety of GM crops will give competition to Monsanto

June 22: The Greenpeace activists raided a trail field of genetically modified (GM) rice of a private multinational firm

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