Tag: science

Data just doesn't add up behind industry conclusions on chlorpyrifos – a controversial insecticide linked to brain impacts for children.

"We urge the Senate to listen to the American people and reject this pesticide industry loyalist who will put corporate profits over farmers, public health, and our environment."

But the EPA's "agenda to sideline science" is still front and center.

Humanity has, the scientists tell us, about a dozen years to get our environmental act together. Or else...

"You have an administration that virtually does not even recognize the reality of climate change and their policies, working with the fossil fuel industry, are making a bad situation worse."

"We're seeing EPA trying to cut science out of the process."

Or otherwise, millions will be imperiled by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty.

This means that restoring food sovereignty to Native communities requires the re-introduction of indigenous food production, distribution practices and infrastructure, in concert with the re-valuation of traditional ecological knowledge that has long been sidelined from Western notions of science.

"...our message as scientists is simple: Our planet's future climate is inextricably tied to the future of its forests."

Without supportive government policies, innovative plastic alternatives will have trouble crossing the so-called “valley of death” from the lab to the market.