“The EPA’s proposed rule will make it more likely that people who live and work on or near farms will be sprayed with dangerous pesticides.” Environmental experts are sounding the alarm against the Trump administration’s ...
“Although people argue against costly regulations, unrestricted use of these chemicals is far more expensive in the long run, with American children bearing the largest burden.” (Beyond Pesticides) Exposure to environmental chemicals in the U.S. ...
When methyl parathion was sprayed on Maui cornfields on July 15, 2014, Bayer Monsanto knew full well that this use was prohibited. (By Beyond Pesticides) Bayer’s Monsanto endangered public health and the environment by knowingly ...
This potential scandal is so large, it’s hard to fully comprehend what the implications may be. A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit ...
Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk ...
While paraquat has been banned in the European Union since 2007, millions of pounds are still being imported into the U.S. from other countries. (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is downplaying the ...
“The effects from exposure to complex organic and inorganic contaminant mixtures at low concentrations are poorly understood.” (Beyond Pesticides) Heavy rains in urban areas bring together a toxic mixture of man-made chemicals which make their ...
“Proposing to register sulfoxaflor for use on bee-attractive crops, in the midst of an ongoing pollinator crisis, is the height of irresponsibility.” (By Beyond Pesticides) Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a ...
“The number of honey bee hives in the U.S. dropped from about six million in 1947 to just 2.4 million in 2008, with 2018 being the worst year on record for hive loss.” (Beyond Pesticides) ...
The EPA regularly utilizes the “emergency exemption” rule to circumvent enacted restrictions on pesticide use. (Beyond Pesticides) On June 17, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) once again approved “emergency” uses of sulfoxaflor, a bee-toxic ...
“The fact that we’re still using hundreds of millions of pounds of poisons other nations have wisely rejected as too risky spotlights our dangerously lax approach to phasing out hazardous pesticides.” (Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. ...
The chemical has a strong propensity to off-gas when used in “strips” similar to those in Starbucks stores, and apart from cancer concerns, poses acute risks to exposed individuals. (Beyond Pesticides) A class-action lawsuit is accusing Starbucks ...
It’s “unconscionable for EPA to turn a blind eye as children and workers are exposed to this poison. If the EPA won’t do its job when it comes to chlorpyrifos, then Congress needs to act – ...
Beyond its link to hormone-dependent breast cancer, neonicotinoids are most infamous for their well-documented role in driving mass pollinator declines. (Beyond Pesticides) Researchers have documented an increase in food and drinking water residues of neonicotinoids, insecticides linked to ...
DDE, a breakdown product of the long-banned organochlorine insecticide DDT, was detected in 55.7% of the wristbands. (Beyond Pesticides) Research by the youth participatory action team of the CHAMACOS of the Salinas Evaluating Chemicals in ...
According to a recent study, glyphosate, the primary pesticide in the weed killer Roundup, was found in popular beers and wines. In recent years, scientists and public health groups have conducted studies that found glyphosate ...
“Cyanide traps are indiscriminate killers that just can’t be used safely. We’ll keep fighting for a permanent nationwide ban, which is the only way to protect people, pets and imperiled wildlife from the EPA’s poison,” ...
A new study published by toxicologists called for the ban of organophosphates (OP), a class of chemicals found in pesticides. The study found organophosphates are linked to brain damage in children and claimed that exposure ...
Twenty percent of crops harvested in Brazil between 2013 and 2015 were not safe for human consumption because of a high concentration of pesticides. A Brazilian study published in the journal Chemosphere links colon cancer ...
“Any animals in the near-shore environment with similar prey are probably being exposed as well.” (Beyond Pesticides) Bottlenose dolphins found along Florida’s west coast contain detectable levels of phthalates, chemicals used in plastics, cosmetics and ...
“Thus, the jury could conclude that Monsanto acted with malice by consciously disregarding a probable safety risk.” After much speculation that a San Francisco Superior Court could overturn last August’s landmark verdict against Monsanto (now ...
Once making it into a home, pesticides will take much longer to degrade than in the outdoor environment in water or soil. (Beyond Pesticides) Pesticide residue doesn’t announce itself –it isn’t colored, it doesn’t glow ...
The historic $250 million punitive damage verdict awarded against Monsanto may be overturned due to insufficient proof the company acted with malice. Superior Court Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos granted a tentative ruling that would overturn a ...
Pesticide activists are outraged as two new reports detail how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) abuses emergency exemptions of pesticides – a provision in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) – to ...
(Beyond Pesticides) “‘Don’t get pregnant at George Air Force Base’” was the advice imparted from one female Air Force member to another in 1975 at that base, located 100+ miles north of San Diego and used as an ...
Polo, a pesticide manufactured in Switzerland has been blamed for the deaths and hospitalization of farmers in India. Polo contains the active agent diafenthiuron, a pesticide that was banned in the European Union in 2002. ...
Chinese environmentalists found cotton farmers could save up to $300 million annually if they control cotton pests with beetles instead of using pesticides. Known as ladybugs in the U.S. (but scientists prefer the term lady beetle), ...
Tomasi suffered from a serious illness due to his exposure to pesticides and despite his physical pain, raised his voice to denounce the multimillionaire agribusiness companies responsible. (NewsClick) Fabián Tomasi, who contracted severe toxic polyneuropathy ...
German pharmaceutical company Bayer has taken a stock market dive owed to its newest acquisition Monsanto, and recent media surrounding the carcinogenic impacts of their products. After a San Francisco court sided with a groundskeeper ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released a report that found glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, in all but two of the 45 conventional breakfast cereals, snack bars, and granola brands it ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A federal judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of the most widely used pesticide in the world, glyphosate. Under the ruling, new products may not be registered in the country until the ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must ban a widely used organophosphate pesticide linked to brain damage in children, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The appellate court ordered EPA to finalize its ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
Laboratory data denying a causal connection between the herbicide Roundup and one San Francisco man’s cancer has been the focus of dispute in the Monsanto lawsuit that has now crossed into its third week. San ...
California says weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, but California also sprays it into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which is home to much of the water supply for central and southern California. California government officially put ...
A new documentary interviews families of Argentinian tobacco farmers and asks the question, “Can Monsanto chemicals permanently alter your child’s genes?” While on vacation in the northern Misiones province of Argentina French journalist, documentary filmmaker ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines for measures to lower children’s exposures to chemicals in food and food packaging that are tied to health problems such as obesity, metabolic ...
(BeyondPesticides) A legal complaint filed by a Kansas farmer claims industry giant, Monsanto, knew its new dicamba-formulated product would harm other crops, but marketed and sold it anyway, damaging thousands of acres of crops. The lawsuit, filed by ...
Hawaii has banned the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, becoming the first U.S. state to do so, thanks to pressure from a multi-year grassroots campaign. The movement sprung out of growing health concerns for children ...
President Donald Trump has nominated Scott Hutchins to become the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hutchins was a former executive at the crop protection division of the Dow Chemical Company (DCC). ...
How about some pesticides with your scoop of Phish Food or Cherry Garcia? According to a new lawsuit, that’s what you’re getting when you order ice cream from beloved American ice cream company, Ben and Jerry’s. ...
A body of evidence from over 100 individual experiments included in 23 combined studies reveals that pesticides are dumbing down bees. A new study analyzed years of bee evidence and found 23 studies related to ...
A new Mexican firm, Applied Biotech, has developed a natural pesticide from molecules that make chili peppers hot. Capsaicinoids are the molecules that give chili peppers their heat, and the Mexican startup has harvested this chemical ...
Monsanto is facing the first ever lawsuit over its flagship product and weedkiller Roundup on Monday. Thousands of pages of discovery documents related to the case were analyzed by researchers who found that Monsanto has been ...
A joint report conducted by IowaWatch and with Science in the Media, a University of Northern Iowa project, reveals that 444,559 students and teachers are at risk of pesticide exposure and poisoning in Iowa. Local ...
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