The widespread environmental contaminants known as PFAS aren’t just associated with health problems — they cause them directly.
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The widespread environmental contaminants known as PFAS aren’t just associated with health problems — they cause them directly.
Read ArticleJoining Hawaii and New York, California will phase out the pesticide by February 2020, a critical step in protecting public health.
Read ArticleBayer may lose billions over claims that the No. 1 agricultural chemical is unsafe. But its market niche seems secure.
Read ArticleGermany will ban the use of the cancer-causing weedkiller glyphosate by the end of 2023 and will limit its use before then.
Read ArticleAs concerns grow about glyphosate contaminating our food supply, Thrive Market has become the first national retailer to support the Glyphosate Residue Free certification.
Read ArticleThe likely culprit? The loosening of pesticide restrictions, including the nearly 300 new products that have been fast-tracked for approval since the beginning of the year.
Read Article20 French mayors have banned glyphosate from their municipalities and are now facing legal action from the federal government.
Read ArticleFarmers and conservationists have filed a lawsuit against the EPA and Monsanto, challenging the approval of Monsanto’s crop-damaging dicamba pesticide.
This decision is targeted at a California regulation which requires labels to warn consumers that the Roundup ingredient is potentially cancer-causing.
Read ArticleAn important read about Monsanto’s cozy relationship with Tamar Haspel, a Washington Post columnist who defended glyphosate and diet soda.
Read ArticleA new report found that 90% of the families tested have the cancer-causing glyphosate in their bodies, with most kids having much more than their parents.
Read ArticleDefying the scientific consensus about the harm that chlorpyrifos causes to children, the Trump administration’s EPA announced its decision to allow it to remain on the market.
Read ArticleThe incredibly dangerous assault on pollinators continues, this time with the EPA’s allowance of sulfoxaflor, which the agency considers “very highly toxic” to bees.
Read ArticleAustria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill banning all uses of the super-toxic weedkiller glyphosate.
Read ArticleGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country’s lower house on Wednesday that glyphosate use will eventually die out – a stunning proclamation given that Bayer just purchased this product in its acquisition of Monsanto.
Read ArticleDespite controversial lawsuits and rising awareness about glyphosate’s health risks, new data analysis shows that the use of this chemical has increased across the Midwest.
Read ArticleDowDuPont, the primary chemical manufacturer of chlorpyrifos, has been found to disproportionately contribute to congressional campaigns against the pesticide ban.
Read ArticleAs part of their new 2-year testing program, The Detox Project and Mamavation found that best-selling organic pea protein products were contaminated with glyphosate.
Read ArticleIn recently released records, it was revealed that a domestic policy adviser at the White House said, “We have Monsanto’s back on pesticide regulation.”
Read ArticleWith the fear of lawsuits from nearby cannabis growers, the livelihood of organic avocado farmers in California is hanging in the balance.
Read ArticleA jury in California has awarded a couple $2 billion for Monsanto’s Roundup causing them cancer, the third legal victory of its kind.
Read ArticleIn defiance of the federal government, California decides to cancel the registration of this brain-harming pesticide in the state.
Read ArticleDespite the fact the Trump administration’s own officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry found a link between glyphosate and cancer just a few weeks ago, the EPA has announced that this herbicide is safe.
Read ArticleA federal appeals court has given the EPA 90 days to justify why the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos should stay on the market.
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