TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam joined The Healthy Project Podcast to talk about her recent investigation revealing internal corporate documents from pesticide maker Syngenta that show how the company withheld important data about the weed killer paraquat from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
California regulators said Friday they intend to designate the widely used weed killer atrazine as a known carcinogen, a move that contrasts with the opinion of federal regulators.
WATCH: A new documentary film explores the connections between Parkinson’s disease and agricultural uses of pesticides such as paraquat.
The US should review policies that allow major food crops to be sprayed directly with herbicides shortly before harvest and should tighten related policies that allow for high levels of residues of those pesticides in finished food products, according to a petition filed Thursday with the government regulators.
US officials said this week they are expanding a scientific review of the widely used weed killer glyphosate, a chemical popular in agriculture but also linked for years to cancer and other health problems. But skeptics doubt the sincerity of the move.
Newly unsealed internal corporate files show Syngenta avoided sharing certain paraquat health risk data with the EPA despite federal legal requirements for companies to report information about adverse effects.
Opposing teams of attorneys spent hours on Monday battling over a proposed $7.25 billion settlement of the US Roundup cancer litigation that, if approved, would allow Bayer to keep selling its controversial glyphosate weed killers while providing roughly $10,000 to $165,000 for individuals suffering from cancer they blame on Roundup use.
Robyn O’Brien, a nationally recognized thought leader on food policy and finance issues, talked with TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam about questions and controversies behind the Make America Healthy Again movement, following the money, and how the Trump administration is actually making people sicker by rolling back health protections.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should require cancer warnings on all pesticide products containing ingredients the agency has found show evidence of carcinogenicity, according to an emergency petition filed Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental health advocacy group.
A federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation involving allegations that exposure to paraquat weed killing products causes Parkinson’s disease is applying pressure to plaintiffs who are not accepting settlement agreements proposed by paraquat maker Syngenta.