Dr. Nancy Beck is credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations during the first Trump administration, and she rewrote rules that made it harder to track the health consequences of a “forever chemical” linked to cancer.
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With GOTS having been just included in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing, GOTS-certified products will now receive clear preference in public tenders.
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The complaint alleges that the EPA is unlawfully withholding public records on pesticide decision-making.
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Center for Food Safety submitted a groundbreaking petition to the EPA, urging immediate action to address the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances in pesticides and pesticide containers.
Read Article A complete travesty. The EPA continues to ignore the real world danger of whole pesticide formulations, putting chemical companies (again) ahead of consumers.
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In 2020, just as covid hit, the USDA, EPA and FDA launched a pro-GMO campaign called Feed Your Mind. That program has since been updated.
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The EPA has finally acknowledged that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine and cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate are each likely to harm more than 1,000 of the nation’s most endangered plants and animals.
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Beginning in 2019, the EPA stopped releasing crucial toxics reports. Even agency staffers have a hard time accessing them.
Read Article The EPA announced the creation of two internal scientific advisory panels after whistleblower accounts of internal corruption.
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A phenomenal piece of investigative journalism from The Intercept.
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The day after last week’s Organic Insider story on dicamba, the Center for Food Safety formally asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the EPA in contempt for refusing to abide by a federal court order for suspending use of the pesticide.
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The ninth circuit court of appeals is being asked to overturn the EPA’s approval of a Monsanto herbicide that is allegedly a threat to farm crops across the U.S.
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Ignoring science, the EPA repeatedly fails to assess glyphosate’s impacts on human health and endangered species.
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PFAS (the ‘forever chemical’) is showing up in water supplies nationwide, and many communities are left to fight against the toxins themselves.
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In a disastrous and very dangerous policy move, the Trump administration has yet again prioritized the interests of chemical companies ahead of individual citizens.
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A new EPA rule proposal would shrink the areas where farmers must restrict human contact during pesticide applications, a move that exposes many more people to cancer-linked chemicals.
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This is ominous. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the USDA, FDA and EPA to ease rules for approving genetically modified crops and other agricultural biotechnology.
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In recently released records, it was revealed that a domestic policy adviser at the White House said, “We have Monsanto’s back on pesticide regulation.”
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A federal appeals court has given the EPA 90 days to justify why the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos should stay on the market.
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30 environmental and farm advocacy groups have urged the EPA to deny Monsanto’s request to increase the spraying of dicamba.
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Despite the fact that agronomists reported over one million acres of dicamba-injured soybeans in 14 states, in addition to many reports of dicamba damage to trees and gardens, the EPA just re-approved this Monsanto pesticide for another two years.
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Environmental Working Group, along with several organic brands, including Nature’s Path, Stonyfield Farm, MOM’s Organic Market, One Degree Organic Foods, and Happy Family Organics, has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to sharply limit glyphosate residues allowed on oats and to prohibit the pesticide’s use as a pre-harvest drying agent.
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Fortunately, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is looking out for the health of U.S. citizens — unlike the EPA.
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The Pesticide Action Network takes a shocking look at our growing use of agricultural pesticides.
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