Plastic additive meant to replace toxic phthalates linked to lower birth weights, study finds
A study led by NYU Langone Health researchers adds to growing evidence that replacement chemicals can pose their own health risks.
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“Forever chemicals” pollute more than 80% of tested US waterways
If you swam, fished or paddled a lake or river in the US over the past couple of years, there’s a more than 80% chance the water contained toxic “forever chemicals,” according to a new report.
As EPA shrugs, California designates atrazine weed killer as cancer risk
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.
Lawsuit seeks answers on EPA’s abandoned CAFO pollution panel
US regulators are illegally withholding records related to the disbanding of a panel set up by the Biden administration to address water pollution from factory farms, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
Study links common insecticides to lower sperm concentration in men
Higher exposure to common neonicotinoid insecticides was associated with lower sperm quality in men, according to a new study that adds to a growing body of evidence about the reproductive health risks of pesticides.
EPA’s atrazine clean up plan is “utterly worthless,” study finds
A US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to reduce the amount of atrazine running off into US rivers, lakes and streams would leave 99% of watersheds contaminated at levels that exceed the agency’s threshold for harm to plants, fish and other species, according to a new study.
Petition calls for US actions to lower pesticide residues in food
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.
California illegally spurred “gold rush in cow manure,” lawsuit alleges
California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from manure, a policy that harms poor communities and perverts the state’s clean air program, four advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit.
Landmark bill in California now requires state to disclose PFAS pesticide use
Under the new law, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation must track pesticides containing PFAS in its publicly accessible database and monitor how these pesticides are used over time.
Pesticide linked to cancer and hormone disruption pollutes a quarter of US river miles
A cancer-linked pesticide banned in more than 60 countries around the world contaminates an estimated 25% of river and stream miles in the lower 48 US states, including many waterways used for drinking water, according to a new analysis.