Tucked away in the massive farm bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is language that would block local governments from adopting their own pesticide regulations, such as the prohibition of glyphosate being sprayed on parks and schoolyards.
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With California’s landmark court case ruling that Monsanto’s Roundup was responsible for a groundskeeper’s cancer, the number of lawsuits against the company has grown to more than 8,000.
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Important read. With the support of Big Ag, the Trump administration is trying to curb the use of human health studies in the regulation of toxic pesticides.
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Even though glyphosate is currently grabbing all of the headlines, dicamba – the super-toxic chemical sold by Monsanto and BASF – is causing a tremendous amount of problems.
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Bees, a key player in California’s $7.6 billion almond industry, are dying at a rapid rate — and, not surprisingly, many people are blaming pesticides for this.
Read ArticleFortunately, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is looking out for the health of U.S. citizens — unlike the EPA.
Read ArticleThe Pesticide Action Network takes a shocking look at our growing use of agricultural pesticides.
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The war against organic may be nowhere greater than in Brazil, where lawmakers want to eliminate organic fruits and vegetables in major supermarkets, favoring pesticide-laden produce. It is beyond shocking.
The pesticide industry has wanted to kill ‘endangered species’ protections, and President Trump is fulfilling their wish.
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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences discusses new technologies that better assess the dangers of chemicals and chemical mixtures. But will it ever get put to use and change policy?
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With organic grains having suffered glyphosate contamination, the case is being made that current methods to separate organic and conventional farming are not working.
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As part of the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s first-ever examination of formulations made with glyphosate, new tests have shown that popular weedkiller products, such as Monsanto’s RoundUp, are more toxic to human cells than their active ingredients.
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Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, a highly toxic neurotoxin that causes significant damage to brain development in children.
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Last Friday, the EU approved a proposal to completely ban the outdoor use of three neonicotinoid pesticides, which studies have found are harmful to bees and other pollinators.
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As discovered in a Freedom of Information Act request, FDA internal emails show that the agency knew common household foods were contaminated with the toxic weedkiller glyphosate, a chemical which the State of California says is known to cause cancer.
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U.S. Right to Know’s Gary Ruskin does a deep dive on Jon Entine, the Genetic Literacy Project and the propaganda machine of the ag-bio industry.
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Stonyfield has just launched a three-year, $500,000 initiative to eliminate the use of pesticides in fields and parks of 35 communities across the U.S.
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Germany is close to banning the use of the herbicide glyphosate in household gardens, parks and sports facilities, along with serious limits for its use in agriculture.
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Armed with more than $400M in funding, Boston-based Indigo is hoping that its microbes will reduce or even eliminate the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, as well as GMOs.
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A new report published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research shows that only a very small number of corn acres actually need neonicotinoid treatments on seeds — the pesticide widely believed to be causing Colony Collapse Disorder.
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Australia has proposed mandatory fungicide treatment on a wide variety of vegetable seeds entering the country, saying the risk of pathogens from abroad has become too great to ignore.
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Another week, another glyphosate warning. This time, the toxic chemical is linked to shortened pregnancies in women.
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Data just released shows that the monarch butterfly count fell by nearly one-third from last year’s count, indicating ongoing risk of extinction for America’s most well-known butterfly. This is largely due to the widespread planting of GE-crops.
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A federal judge temporarily ruled that California cannot force Monsanto to put a warning label on its glyphosate products, but the chemical can still remain on the state’s cancer-causing list.
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