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Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – ‘The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures’ – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: “As the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture’s profits, the next generation of […]
Is Bottled Water Safe to Drink, Everyday?
Is Bottled Water Safe to Drink, Everyday? Photograph Source: Sascha Kohlmann – CC BY-SA 2.0 The next time you put your lips to a plastic bottle of “crystal-clear mountain spring water” think about Trump’s herculean efforts to dismantle federal agencies that protect health. More to the point, Trump’s innate distrust of science is already starting to […]
Bayer Loses Second Roundup Glyphosate Trial; Ordered To Pay $80 Million
Bayer Loses Second Roundup Glyphosate Trial; Ordered To Pay $80 Million Bayer AG has lost a second trial over claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer – and has been ordered by a San Fancisco jury to pay compensatory damages of $5.3 million and punitive damages of $75 million to a 70-year-old California man, Edwin Hardeman, who […]
New Jersey is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination–Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender
Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept NEW JERSEY IS MAKING COMPANIES PAY FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION — SHINING A NEW LIGHT ON A LITTLE-KNOWN OFFENDER NEW JERSEY LAID financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at the feet of the chemical companies responsible for it. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection issued a directive on Monday ordering five companies to pay the […]
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy Photo Source Andy Powell | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchy is bad for children’s health All past civilizations protected children. It was self-evident that healthy children assured continuity, security and happiness. However, machine-powered civilizations give the illusion corporations, oligarchies, and the government control everything. Children fade in this confused […]
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents
Bayer Beware: Lawyers Claim To Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents Lawyers involved in a California lawsuit against Monsanto claim to have “explosive” documents concerning the Bayer-owned agrochemical giant’s activities in Europe, according to Euronews. “What we have is the tip of the iceberg. And in fact we have documents now in our possession, several hundreds documents, that have not […]
Weed-Killing Carcinogen Glyphosate Found In Children’s Foods
Weed-Killing Carcinogen Glyphosate Found In Children’s Foods The known carcinogen and infamous weed killing chemical glyphosate has just been found in breakfast foods marketed for children. A new study has discovered trace amounts of the most widely used herbicide in the country in oats, granolas, and snack bars. Concern over glyphosate has continued to grow in the […]
Are You One Of The 170 Million Americans Drinking Radioactive Tap Water?
Are You One Of The 170 Million Americans Drinking Radioactive Tap Water? According to a new bombshell report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), tap water for more than 170 million Americans contains radioactive elements that may increase the risk of cancer. The group examined 50,000 public water systems throughout the United States and found from […]
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals
Monsanto is Suing California for Telling People the Truth About Its Chemicals (ANTIMEDIA) California — Monsanto is suing the State of California for its intent to include glyphosate — the main ingredient in its wildly popular herbicide, Roundup — on its Proposition 65 toxic chemicals list. California’s decision came after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for […]
Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See
Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See (ANTIMEDIA) Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacologyjust proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer. Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to […]
Monsanto and the Heirloom Seed
MONSANTO AND THE HEIRLOOM SEED “Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. “Control food and you control the people.” World food control is almost in place thanks to the reduction of seed diversity with genetically modified seeds being distributed by only a few transnational corporations. Genetic engineering has […]
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds Protests against Monsanto’s Roundup, with its poisonous, weed-killing glyphosate, have spread around the globe. An arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a probable cause of cancer in 2015. California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CA EPA) recently decided to label it as such. Environmental groups and […]
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print When EPA’s long-awaited draft assessment on fracking and drinking water supplies was released, the oil and gas industry triumphantly focused on a headline-making sentence: “We did not find evidence of widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.” But for fracking’s […]
