According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidizing pesticides.
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According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidizing pesticides.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has reintroduced legislation to protect children and farmworkers by banning dangerous pesticides like paraquat, neonicotinoids and organophosphates.
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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.
Read Article A new study has created a concept called a Dietary Risk Index (DRI) and tells us that organic farming lowers dietary risks of exposure to pesticides.
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In a historic victory for farmers, the environment and public health, the EPA announced that it will be revoking all tolerances of chlorpyrifos, effectively banning all food uses of the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide in the U.S.
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An excellent piece about how toxic chemicals cannot compete against superweeds — which may ultimately force farmers to look toward more organic and regenerative practices.
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Our government continues to put the interests of chemical companies ahead of the well-being of American citizens.
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While glyphosate gets most of the headlines, the super-toxic dicamba is causing massive problems as well.
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In a victory for consumers, advocates, and the environment, Monsanto-Bayer today announced it will end the sales of its glyphosate-based herbicides — including its flagship product, Roundup — in the U.S. residential lawn and garden market in 2023.
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Harmful PFAS chemicals are linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, plummeting sperm counts and a range of other serious health problems.
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A phenomenal piece of investigative journalism from The Intercept.
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Responding to a complaint by the Environmental Working Group, the USDA confirmed that the Harris Teeter organic brand of chickpeas was, in fact, contaminated with the cancer-causing weedkiller.
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Family-owned vineyards have reported losses of more than 90% since Bayer-Monsanto and BASF began selling their dicamba-based, genetically-modified seed system to cotton growers.
Read Article The Office of the Inspector General found that “senior-level” EPA staffers “changed” and “omitted” research-based evidence of the drift risks of the pesticide that has already damaged millions of acres of crops. Surprised?
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A Mexican federal judge ruled against a request by the National Farm Council to freeze a government plan to ban GMO corn and the widely used herbicide glyphosate by 2024.
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A new study found that pesticides are causing widespread damage to the tiny creatures that keep soils healthy and underpin all life on land.
Read Article The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to ban all food uses of the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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44% of farmers, farmworkers and pesticide applicators experience at least one incident of acute pesticide poisoning on the job every year, and 11,000 die annually from accidental pesticide poisoning.
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Topping the list of this year’s worst offenders are strawberries and spinach. Avocados and sweet corn lead the Clean 15.
Read Article Researchers in Switzerland found pesticide residues at some farms that had been converted to organic more than 20 years ago.
Read Article EPA’s past 2018 dicamba registration decision was tainted by political interference and ignored important science on the herbicide’s very serious risks, according to an internal EPA email. Is anyone surprised?
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In banning glyphosate, Mexico has embraced the precautionary principle and the growing body of scientific research showing the dangers of the chemical.
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Fortunately, these efforts do not seem to be working.
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Even as farm workers alleged in lawsuits that chlorpyrifos had made them sick, Trump’s EPA refused to ban it.
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