"Red, White or Green? Calif. Wine Choices Expand"
"Consumers of California wine easily can tell a red cabernet from a white chardonnay, and soon they will have a tool to determine whether it's green."
Source: AP, 01/15/2010
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"Stronger Controls Urged on Chemicals in Water"
"Citing the decline in frogs and rise of "frankenfish," a Bay Area environmental group filed a legal petition Monday for tighter federal standards on pollutants that disrupt the hormones of humans and wildlife."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 01/13/2010
"Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit"
"In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics."
Source: YaleE360, 01/11/2010
"Organic ... or Not"
"These foods are not always what consumers think they are. Some are not chemical or pesticide free. Health benefits are questionable. Only certain thing? They cost more."
Source: Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal, 01/05/2010
"Hispanic Farmworkers Seek Tighter Controls on Pesticide Use"
"Hispanic farmworkers in California poisoned by pesticides are demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exercise greater control over toxic substances used in agriculture."
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune, 12/15/2009
"Bhopal: the Victims Are Still Being Born"
"Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial."
Source: Independent, 12/01/2009
"African Dust Bringing Toxic Chemicals to U.S., Caribbean"
"Pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls are among the contaminants hitching an airborne ride to the United States and other parts of the Western Hemisphere on dust storms blowing out of West Africa. That's according to new research presented at the just-completed annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry."
Source: Dateline Earth, 11/25/2009
"Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use -- Report"
"The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued Tuesday by health and environmental protection groups."
Source: Reuters, 11/18/2009
Pesticides Down in Streams of Corn Belt: USGS
"A report shows concentrations of several major pesticides mostly declined or remained the same in the U.S. 'Corn Belt' rivers and streams from 1996 to 2006."
Source: UPI, 11/10/2009
"Salinas Valley Schools Perched Near Pesticide-Sprayed Farmland"
Some Salinas Valley residents worry that the drift of pesticides sprayed on fields near schools may endanger children, despite some controls.
Source: Salinas Californian, 11/09/2009
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