Three NGOs — PAN Europe, IFOAM Organics Europe, and Global 2000 — have filed a formal complaint to the European Ombudsman accusing the European Commission of using a misleading “HRI-1” indicator that wrongly represents pesticide use reduction.
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As the Iowa skipper nears extinction, this legal action is a necessary pushback against a pesticide-driven model that treats pollinators as collateral damage.
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It had been reported that the EPA was on the verge of making taxpayers responsible for all of the pollution and damage caused by PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ — but fortunately, that did not happen. A stunning development.
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As we profiled in our last letter, Omar Dieguez was on a hunger strike to get Driscoll’s and California Giant Berry Farms, which both sell products under conventional and organic labels, to stop spraying toxic pesticides on fields next to schools in Watsonville and convert these farms to organic. So far, the two companies have taken no such action. During his hunger strike, Omar was banned from entering schools by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, who deemed his talks about pesticide spraying as too “controversial.”
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According to a new study, pesticides banned years ago in the European Union are drifting through the skies and turning up in clouds above France, raising concerns about how long these toxins persist and how far they can travel.
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If Republican lawmakers vote for the spending bill in its current form, “they are going to face the wrath of MAHA in the midterm elections,” vowed Vani Hari. “Giving immunity to chemical manufacturers? That’s insanity,” added Kelly Ryerson.
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“While the MAHA Commission Strategy Report does address a wide range of environmental factors that have never before been addressed by any other administration, we are deeply disappointed that the committee allowed the chemical companies to influence the report,” said Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America.
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A study in Brazil found that pesticides compromise growth and swimming performance of fish, in addition to causing various metabolic and hematological disruptions.
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In an incredibly alarming study by the Clean Label Project, 100% of organic coffee samples tested positive for AMPA, a glyphosate byproduct.
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The EPA’s unlawful registration of 2,4-D and glyphosate products threatens farmers, public health and the environment.
Read Article “It’s outrageous,” said Tracey Woodruff, a researcher at the University of California San Francisco who studies environmental health, particularly the effects of chemical exposures on pregnant mothers and their babies. “If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land.”
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A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Cancer Control and Society said that herbicides are linked to cancer rates at levels similar to smoking.
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In order to achieve its goal of becoming 100% organic, Bhutan has banned glyphosate throughout the whole country.
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A phenomenal move by Vermont, but this could soon be nullified by federal laws.
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Despite the fact that dicamba drift has damaged millions of acres of soybeans and caused devastating damage to farms, home gardens, native plants and wildlife refuges throughout the Midwest and South, this chemical is set to be re-approved.
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A new study investigates possible ties to pesticides, nitrates and other farm-related risks.
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HUGE news! The European Commission has now officially requested that the European Food Safety Authority and the European Chemicals Agency analyze the shocking results of the Global Glyphosate Study, which showed that glyphosate alone and glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer.
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A 2-year, multi-institutional and global research study reported that rats exposed to glyphosate doses that have been deemed “safe” by regulators for the human population, including children and pregnant women, were found to have caused 6 of the top 10 most common cancers in the world.
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A medical study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that living within 1 mile of a golf course was associated with 126% increased odds of developing Parkinson’s disease, compared with individuals living more than 6 miles away from a golf course.
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Pushback in the Trump administration, as to whether pesticides will be blamed for America’s health woes in the upcoming MAHA Assessment Report, to be released on May 22nd.
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Community members in Watsonville and across Santa Cruz County are raising their voices, calling for change in how pesticides are used near homes and schools. American labor leader Dolores Huerta is joining the fight.
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The findings of this study build on existing research that pollution knows no borders or boundaries.
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Internal Syngenta documents, revealed by The New Lede, show that the company was aware of scientific evidence many years ago indicating that paraquat could impact the brain in ways that cause Parkinson’s, and that it secretly sought to influence scientific research to counter the evidence of harm.
Read Article Exposure to multiple pesticides significantly increases the risk of childhood cancers compared with exposures to just one pesticide, first-of-its-kind research finds, raising new fears that children are more at risk to the substances’ harmful effects than previously thought.
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