"America’s Love Affair With The Lawn Is Getting Messy"
"LeighAnn Ferrara is transforming her small suburban yard from grass bordered by a few shrubs into an anti-lawn — a patchwork of flower beds, vegetables and fruit trees."
Source: AP, 05/10/2022
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"EPA Proposes Scaling Back Weedkiller Tied To Cancer"
"EPA has proposed to end the use of the weedkiller diuron on most food crops, citing cancer risks to people who are exposed as well as danger to bees and other wildlife."
Source: E&E News, 05/02/2022
"Climate Change, Big Agriculture Combine To Threaten Insects"
"Climate change and habitat loss from big agriculture are combining to swat down global insect populations, with each problem making the other worse, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 04/21/2022
"People Of Color More Likely To Be Harmed By Pesticides, Study Finds"
"People of color and low-income communities are at disproportionate risk of pesticide exposure, a new study has found." "Hispanic and Latino farmworkers at high risk from pesticide use in agriculture, while people in lower-income housing also affected".
Source: Guardian, 04/19/2022
Fears For Bees As US Set To Extend Use Of Toxic Neonicotinoid Pesticides
"EPA to approve plan for four types of neonicotinoid chemical to be used on US farmland – despite being banned in Europe".
Source: Guardian, 03/09/2022
World's Insect Population Is In Decline, and That's Bad News For Humans
"Habitat loss, pesticides and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining globally and that a third of them are endangered."
Source: NPR, 03/01/2022
Pollution Causing More Deaths Than Covid, Action Needed, Says UN Expert
"Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than COVID-19, a U.N. environmental report published on Tuesday said, calling for "immediate and ambitious action" to ban some toxic chemicals."
Source: Reuters, 02/15/2022
"‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams"
"A new generation of pesticides promoted as safe alternatives to compounds shown to endanger the environment and public health are turning up in California streams at toxic levels, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey report."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2022
EPA To Assess Impact On Endangered Species Before Approving Pesticides
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will evaluate the potential impact of new pesticide active ingredients on endangered species before registering them, reversing a decades-long policy."
Source: The Hill, 01/12/2022
EPA Prevented Staff From Warning Public About Widely Used Carcinogen
"PCBTF is on a list of “green” compounds preferred by the EPA, even though there is ample evidence that it causes cancer."
Source: The Intercept, 01/06/2022
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