A day after Democrats swept the midterm elections to take control of Congress, TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam talks to US Rep Chellie Pingree about the path forward after the Democrats dominate the midterms elections.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam talks to Iowa’s Democratic candidate for Secretary of Agriculture Chris Jones the day after his loss to incumbent Mike Naig.
Amid the election-year debates, political advertisements and polls, one simple Iowa yard sign sums ups a core issue seen driving voter sentiment. It reads simply: “Fix the damn water.”
Soon, the chemicals will start falling from the sky over the Red Hill area of Boulder County, Colorado. The wildland is known for its biodiversity, home to hundreds of important species and a concentration of rare environmental resources. Farms and ranchland lie below.
But any day now hundreds of acres of Red Hill are set to become the target for drone spraying of a chemical herbicide that comes with a host of concerns.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam talks to Kelly Ryerson, co-executive director of America Regeneration and a leader in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, about a long list of broken promises by the Trump administration and who is getting MAHA votes in the midterm elections.
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.