Thursday, September 10, 2026

Tag: pesticides

Dow Chemical pushes Trump administration to scrap pesticide study

Dow donated $1 million to the presidential inauguration and the company's CEO, Liveris, leads Trump's advisory council on manufacturing.

Tribunal judges: Monsanto violates basic human rights to a healthy environment

Companies that cause damage to health, food and healthy environment should and will be held accountable for their actions.

GMO crops, bee-killing insecticides to be banned on Boulder County-owned land

“Let’s acknowledge: This is not an easy issue; it‘s not a simple one.”

Shell, Dow hid cancer-causing chemical in pesticides, contaminating drinking water for...

“Shell and Dow put greed for profits ahead of the health of the people who bought and used their products.”

Popular farm pesticide found in drinking water

Though the study was exclusive to Iowa, it could have far-reaching effects on the entire U.S.

Pesticides cause ‘catastrophic’ harm to people and planet, UN report says

“The overuse of pesticides has crippled agricultural ecosystems by helping to spur pest infestations.”

Missouri’s largest peach farmer sues Monsanto for losses from illegal herbicide...

"We can't spray our way out of this problem. We need to get off the pesticide treadmill."

Court fails to protect bees from toxic pesticides

"The broader implications of this decision drive the nails in the bee industry's coffin."

Local governments can prohibit GE crops, says U.S. court of appeals

In granting its decision the court recognized potential harm to farmers and environment from the widespread planting of GE crops

EPA approval of Monsanto’s dicamba will ‘massively increase use of toxic...

The Center for Biological Diversity said the new EPA decision will open the door for dicamba use to jump from less than 1 million pounds to more than 25 million annually.

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Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires

The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
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Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land

The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
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Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall

More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
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25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.