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.
Adam Shriver of Farm Action Fund and the host of the Canary in a Cornfield podcast talks to TNL managing editor Brian Bienkowski about Farm Bill deliberations, how corporate consolidation is harming farmers, and how cancer rates and pollution have become key campaign issues in Iowa.
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.
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.
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.
Over the last several decades, countries around the world have banned the weedkiller paraquat because of its risks to human health and links to Parkinson’s disease. So why does the US remain one of the world’s last large markets for widespread paraquat use? An investigation by The New Lede reveals major clues buried in thousands of internal Syngenta records.
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.
With the federal government politically divided nearly to the point of immobilization in recent years, most environmental health protections take place (or don’t) on the state level, and sometimes on the local level.
Pesticide manufacturers have voluntarily cancelled registrations for products containing paraquat in California — kickstarting a statewide phase-out of the controversial herbicide linked to Parkinson’s disease, according to a California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announcement on Monday.