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 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.
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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.
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Researchers in Switzerland found pesticide residues at some farms that had been converted to organic more than 20 years ago.
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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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Bravo to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for signing a bill to ban the use of the cancer-causing weedkiller on all state property.
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After efforts to ban the weedkiller failed, the country will now give financial aid to farmers who agree to stop using the super-toxic herbicide.
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Because of the presence of glyphosate and diquat, the California Department of Food and Agriculture recently issued a statewide quarantine for the organic fertilizer product Agro Gold WS.
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Internal company records show the companies knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway.
Read Article The EPA released a proposed interim decision on the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, effectively continuing its registration in the U.S., despite a proposed ban on the insecticide by the Obama Administration’s EPA in 2015.
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In Australia, ecologists and environmentalists are shockingly defending the cancer-causing weedkiller.
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Activists say the pesticide industry’s calculated move is straight from the tobacco playbook.
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In a reprehensible act, the EPA has reapproved the super-toxic chemical atrazine, and the Center for Food Safety has taken legal action to reverse this decision.
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Is it any wonder that approximately 50% of Americans will get cancer?
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New restrictions are part of a push by the French government to phase out the cancer-causing weedkiller by 2021.
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This morning, Friends of the Earth released a very important Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard. How does your grocery store rank?
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A federal court dismissed a lawsuit against the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which reversed previous bans on specific insecticides and GMOs in national wildlife refuges.
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The EPA announced the final interim decision reauthorizing the use of the toxic pesticide atrazine in the majority of U.S. states., a decision that does not provide protections for public health or endangered species.
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According to SPINS data, the Glyphosate Residue Free certification market has reached $204 million, an increase of 58.2% over the previous year.
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