Tag: pesticides

58 of those communities have adopted more comprehensive policies that prohibit the use of glyphosate.

The company attempted to censor and discredit anyone and anything that contradicted their business interests.

"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today... EPA's job is to protect public health, not industry profits."

The decision prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days.

"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies."

Scientists say pesticides from nearby farms are pushing them closer to extinction.

"I have brought wheat crackers, granola cereal, and corn meal from home and there's a fair amount in all of them."

"The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell – bad for farmers, bad for consumers, and bad for our countryside."

What if honeybee health was greatly affected by commonly used pesticides, causing colonies to die en masse?

Unfortunately, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt will continue to side with industry interests over science and citizen health.