Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is particularly dangerous to birds, pets and wildlife.

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It has the menacing sound of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: Millions of rats aren't ... of evolution: the best-adapted survive. Every time chemicals are sprayed on a lawn to kill weeds or ants for ...

The California Ecosystems Protection Act of 2023, or Assembly Bill 1322, will place a moratorium on the first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone, a toxic rat poison still on the market ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Assembly today passed the Poison-Free Wildlife Act, which would create stronger protections for wildlife unintentionally harmed or killed by toxic rat poisons.