Tag: pesticides
EPA extends use of Monsanto’s controversial pesticide dicamba on GM soybean...
"Simply adding more use restrictions to an uncontrollable pesticide that already comes with 39 pages of instructions and limitations reflects a broken process."
New study: Eating organic foods reduces your risk of getting cancer
"Although our findings need to be confirmed, promoting organic food consumption in the general population could be a promising preventive strategy against cancer."
Glyphosate could be factor in bee decline, study warns
"We need better guidelines for glyphosate use, especially regarding bee exposure, because right now the guidelines assume bees are not harmed by the herbicide."
Farm Bill: House proposal could wipe out communities’ power to prohibit...
58 of those communities have adopted more comprehensive policies that prohibit the use of glyphosate.
How Monsanto plants stories, suppresses science & silences dissent to sell...
The company attempted to censor and discredit anyone and anything that contradicted their business interests.
‘Major victory for public health:’ Court orders Trump EPA to ban...
"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today... EPA's job is to protect public health, not industry profits."
Federal judge bans use of glyphosate in Brazil
The decision prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days.
US Fish and Wildlife Service lifts ban on neonicotinoids linked to...
"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."
Under Trump, federal agencies halt reviews of toxic pesticides that endanger...
Scientists say pesticides from nearby farms are pushing them closer to extinction.
Glyphosate detected in granola and crackers, FDA emails show
"I have brought wheat crackers, granola cereal, and corn meal from home and there's a fair amount in all of them."
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Bipartisan vote sends $900 billion military bill to Trump’s desk amid war powers concerns and domestic cuts.
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How the charter school industry’s newest scheme could be ‘the death of public schools’
A charter school “shitstorm” in Florida shows how the industry intends to take over public education.
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