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    EPA Bans All Food Uses of Pesticide Linked to Developmental Problems in Children

    EPA Bans All Food Uses of Pesticide Linked to Developmental Problems in Children

    By Jessica Corbett Public health experts and labor rights advocates celebrated Wednesday after the Biden administration announced that it “will stop the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all food to better protect human health, particularly that of children and farmworkers,” following decades of demands for government intervention spurred by safety concerns. The Environmental Protection […]

    The Dangers of Runoff From Land

    The Dangers of Runoff From Land

    With #PlasticFreeJuly upon us, there has been a necessary, global focus on curbing plastic pollution and other trash that comes from land and often ends up in the sea. Now, in partnership with Plastic Oceans International, EcoWatch is highlighting the dangers of another land-based source of ecological harm: runoff. According to the United States Geological […]

    There’s No Compromising on Science When It Comes to Protecting Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams

    There’s No Compromising on Science When It Comes to Protecting Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams

    By Derrick Z. Jackson With its “Waters of the United States” rule, President Obama’s administration enacted unprecedented protections of rivers and streams. The Trump administration, ignoring science and the importance of wetlands, tried to return many of those waterways back to polluters by rolling back the Waters of the US rule. Now Michael Regan, President […]

    80 Groups Blast U.S. Interference in Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn

    80 Groups Blast U.S. Interference in Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn

    By Jessica Corbett A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies” — specifically, the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the […]

    Pesticide Toxicity to Bees Doubled in a Decade, Study Shows

    Pesticide Toxicity to Bees Doubled in a Decade, Study Shows

    By Andrea Germanos Despite lower applied amounts of pesticides in U.S. agriculture, their toxicity to non-target species including honeybees more than doubled in a decade, according to a new study. The findings by a team of researchers from Germany’s University Koblenz-Landau were published Friday in the journal Science. “We have taken a large body of […]

    Essential Farmworkers Deserve Pesticide Protections

    Essential Farmworkers Deserve Pesticide Protections

    By Iris Figueroa and Amy K. Liebman COVID-19 is having disproportionate impacts on our nation’s two million farmworkers, who as essential workers continue to toil in the fields despite numerous deadly outbreaks and no federal COVID-related workplace protections. COVID-19 has pulled back the veil on the strikingly poor workplace conditions of these essential workers, built […]