The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rollback of certain Biden-era regulations that determine how the agency evaluates chemicals — a move it says will speed innovation. Critics argue the plan weakens safeguards to protect people from toxic exposures.
It’s been seven years since Germany’s Bayer bought US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not only the company’s vast portfolio of seeds and pesticide products, but also more than 100,000 lawsuits alleging Monsanto’s popular Roundup herbicide causes cancer. Bayer has been working to put an end to the litigation and to block any future such cases.
Internal calendars from the US Environmental Protection Agency show top officials meeting dozens of times with companies like Bayer, BASF and Dow — while giving little time to public health and environmental groups.
While all eyes have been on Iowa this summer, where levels of harmful nitrate contamination of water supplies spiked well above federal safety standards, nitrate pollution has also been persistently plaguing water sources in other farm states as well.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam joined Bloom, the globally syndicated health and wellness show hosted by Gayle Guyardo, to share eye-opening insights about the hidden dangers lurking in the foods Americans eat every day. Read more here.
Top regulatory officials met with agricultural and chemical industry representatives dozens of times in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office in January, government records show — meetings that were followed by a series of regulatory rollbacks and a downplaying of pesticide concerns by the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission.
More than 200 million people are at risk of drinking tap water contaminated with chemicals that cause cancer, liver damage, birth defects and other reproductive harms, according to research released Wednesday that includes an interactive map of high-risk hot spots.
By Shannon Kelleher
A recent move by federal regulators to walk back a proposed rule that would have tightened water pollution standards for US meat industry plants violates the Clean Water Act, which requires slaughterhouses to curb pollution using modern technology, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
ABC News Nightline highlighted investigative work done by TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam revealing decades of secret Syngenta documents that showed how the company has long worked to hide the risks of its paraquat herbicide, and its connections to Parkinson’s disease. The New Lede, in a co-publishing arrangement with The Guardian, first revealed a trove of internal Syngenta documents in October 2022 and followed up in subsequent stories, exposing years of corporate efforts to cover up evidence that paraquat can cause Parkinson’s disease.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam is a featured participant in the award-winning documentary film Common Ground. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. Watch the trailer.