Study: Safety of Safety Evaluation of Pesticides (Dow Chemical Faked Safety Studies on Brain-Damaging Chlorpyrifos)
We’ve known for a while that Monsanto buried the truth about Roundup weedkiller by ignoring concerns by its own scientists. Now it seems Dow Chemical Co. has been using the same playbook. Dow (renamed DowDuPont after its 2017 merger with DuPont) likely knew for decades that its widely used chlorpyrifos insecticide is harmful to humans—especially children and developing fetuses. But the company hid that information from ...
Study: 100 percent of Oat Cereals Tested Positive for Residues of Glyphosate, the Active Ingredient in Roundup that Causes Terminal Cancerherbicide
A second round of tests commissioned by EWG, published on October 24, 2018, found the glyphosate in every sample of popular oat-based cereal and other oat-based food marketed to children that we tested. See the new results here. Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison in Roundup, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by EWG. Glyphosate, ...
Study: Threshold for Harmful Chemicals in Drinking Water Lower than Thought
A government study found that chemicals found in drinking water around the country could pose risks to human health at lower levels than the government currently recognizes, potentially opening the door for more states to begin cleaning up or regulating the chemical. The report by a branch of the Office of Health and Human Services examined a category of chemicals commonly called PFAS that have been ...
The FDA Responds to FOIA Requests Regarding Glyphosate Residue Testing
The Food and Drug Administration has responded to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information regarding its efforts to start testing food samples for residues of glyphosate as well as some other herbicides, including 2,4-D. Many of those documents can be accessed below: FDA FOIA 2017-7005 FDA FOIA 2017-7005 part 2 FDA Final Responsive Records (2017-7005) Part 3 (Redacted) FDA FOIA 2017-7005 attachments CFSAN Responsive ...
EPA’s Scott Pruitt Attacked for Daring to Require Full Transparency of Scientific Evidence behind EPA Regulations
Some of the most expansive regulatory initiatives have been undertaken in the name of “secret science”: scientific research unavailable to the public the regulations inhibit. But Scott Pruitt has the so-called “Party of Science” livid and environmentalists scared stiff with plans to expose this “science” through more transparency, thus potentially ending the EPA’s reign on environmental tyranny. A proposed rule announced a week ago by Scott Pruitt the of ...
The Poison Papers: Watchdog Groups Release 20,000 Docs Exposing Decades of Collusion between Industry and Regulators over Hazardous Pesticides
The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back to the 1920s. Taken as a whole, the papers show that both industry and regulators understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals ...
Big Ag Companies Ordered to Stop Aerial Spraying Thanks to Ragtag Group of Oregon Locals
The people who wrote an ordinance banning the aerial spraying of pesticides in western Oregon last year aren’t professional environmental advocates. Their group, Lincoln County Community Rights, has no letterhead, business cards, or paid staff. Its handful of core members includes the owner of a small business that installs solar panels, a semi-retired Spanish translator, an organic farmer who raises llamas, and a self-described caretaker and ...
Dupont Settles Toxic Chemical Water Contamination Lawsuit that Affected Six Water Districts
The chemical company, DuPont, manufactures products in its Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. For years, DuPont allowed large amounts of C8 from its plant to contaminate the air, groundwater and landfills in the area resulting in contamination of drinking water in six water districts in Ohio and West Virginia. In 1984, an employee from a DuPont plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia, filled a jug ...
US EPA Scientist Fired For Trying To Tell The Truth About Climate Engineering And Fluoridated Water
The public has been trained and conditioned to believe that federal agencies like the EPA exist to watch over them and warn them of any potential dangers. This notion could not be further from the truth. Though there are honest and caring people within these agencies (like the scientist who has drafted the statement below), the institutions as a whole exist to hide threats from the ...
Obama Announces new Clean Water Rule, Expands EPA Overreach
Editors Note: Since the Clean Water Act became effective in October 1972, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers have overstepped their jurisdiction numerous times, greatly affecting many land owners, farmers, etc. The Supreme Court has reprimanded their overstepping actions time and again, so they have finally succeeded in expanding their jurisdiction from 'navigable waters of the United States' to essentially all waters of the U.S ...
