A new report released today from the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance highlights precision agriculture as a costly distraction from proven climate solutions that entrenches corporate power while putting small and mid-sized farmers at risk.
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy addressing children’s health was billed as a way to address declining public health, with a particular focus on curtailing recent increases in chronic illness in children. However, under pressure from industry-friendly politicians, Secretary Kennedy made it clear that nothing would actually be done to reduce exposures to pesticides.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans today to re-approve three formulations of the dangerous, drift-prone pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and soybeans.
Rob Faux shares his pesticide drift / chemical trespass story. Pesticide misapplications become more prevalent and are most visible Iowa and the Midwest beginning in July into early August.
Today, farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphate pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and field crops. In utero exposures to organophosphates are linked to autism, attention deficit disorders and impaired cognition in school-age children. They also cause countless instances of farmworker and community poisonings every year.
Neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics) are a threat to our pollinators, to birds and fish, and to humans. Seeds treated with neonics are not regulated properly. But states are stepping up to limit the use of neonics.
A new report released today from the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance highlights precision agriculture as a costly distraction from proven climate solutions that entrenches corporate power while putting small and mid-sized farmers at risk.
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy addressing children’s health was billed as a way to address declining public health, with a particular focus on curtailing recent increases in chronic illness in children. However, under pressure from industry-friendly politicians, Secretary Kennedy made it clear
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans today to re-approve three formulations of the dangerous, drift-prone pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and soybeans.
Rob Faux shares his pesticide drift / chemical trespass story. Pesticide misapplications become more prevalent and are most visible Iowa and the Midwest beginning in July into early August.
Today, farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphate pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and field crops. In utero exposures to organophosphates are linked to
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