AG Paxton said federal law requires organic produce be rinsed after it’s sprayed with chlorine and suggested the current practice may be against the law.
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AG Paxton said federal law requires organic produce be rinsed after it’s sprayed with chlorine and suggested the current practice may be against the law.
Read ArticleThe insecticide was approved for use on golf courses, lawns and a host of food crops, including apples, oranges, lettuce, spinach and tomatoes.
Read ArticleThe EPA, again, fails to follow its own cancer assessment guidelines and ignores health risks from cyclobutrifluram.
Read ArticleHowever, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat from Maine, expects to see continued efforts to get industry friendly language inserted into legislation, including into the new Farm Bill.
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State legislators must get this policy reversed.
Read ArticleU.S. regulators are dismissing new research by international cancer experts that warns of links between cancer and the widely used pesticide atrazine, deriding the team of cancer scientists and echoing atrazine maker Syngenta in its criticism.
Read ArticleAccording to a report from EWG, the chemicals are added to pesticides that are sprayed on crops such as almonds, pistachios, wine grapes, alfalfa and tomatoes.
Read ArticleThis year, Sprouts became only the second company to score in the “A” range, joining Whole Foods Market.
Read ArticleIn a new report from Systemiq — and funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment — toxic chemicals used in the global food system is costing trillions in annual healthcare costs (2-3 % of global GDP).
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As a possible replacement to this toxic chemical, Bloomberg acknowledges the value of crop rotation regimens and the planting of cover crops to suppress weeds and add nutrients back to the soil.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s updated findings fly in the face of previous EPA assessment, which found the pesticide likely to harm more than 1,000 imperiled species.
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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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