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EPA revokes Enlist Duo registration

November 28, 2015December 8, 2015 Staff 0 Comments biological diversity, biotech industry, crops, dow agrosciences, environmental health, farmers, glyphosate, harvard school of public health, health risk, herbicide, herbicides, human health, label, months of pregnancy, mount sinai school, mount sinai school of medicine, north america, organic, pesticide action network, pesticide use, policy decision, populations, research, researcher

The EPA has revoked the registration for Enlist Duo which contains 2,4,D. A group of scientists, doctors and business leaders

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More than half of the commercial glyphosate sprayed in California is applied in the state’s eight most impoverished counties.

November 5, 2015 Staff 1 Comment aba, biological diversity, cardiovascular disease, cells, class, correlation, crops, drinking water, environmental health, environmental protection agency, glyphosate, Health care, health hazard

A new report released by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) specified that the

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Neonicotinoid-treated seeds do not protect against crop damage from pests

October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 Staff 0 Comments class, crops, environmental assessment, environmental group, environmental impact, environmental impact study, EPA, epo, fish, Food, food safety, pesticide use, pests, pollen, pollinators, publ, refuges, research, researcher

Neonicotinoid pesticides have been widely blamed for the deaths of pollinators on a global scale. A new study published in

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New England Journal of Medicine recommends that EPA delays implementation of its decision to permit use of Enlist Duo and to label Genetically Modified food.

September 1, 2015September 10, 2015 Staff 0 Comments cancer, cl, class, Corn, crops, england journal of medicine, environmental protection agency, Food, food and drug, food and drug administration, gene, label, new england journal of medicine, organism, organisms, publ, public health, roundup, roundup ready, seeds, soybeans, za

A recommendation by the New England journal of Medicine has focused on the environmental and public health safety hazard associated

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Glyphosate found in 30% of all UK bread samples tested

July 23, 2015September 10, 2015 Staff 0 Comments anger, class, consumers, crops, ep, farmers, farming, FDA, Food, glyphosate, human health, label, Labelling, lasso, molecular genetics, organic, pesticide, regu, research, weedkiller

The Soil Association has released new findings at a presentation held in London revealing that the use of glyphosate has

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Maui’s ban of genetically modified crops invalidated on procedural grounds

July 13, 2015September 10, 2015 Staff 0 Comments crops, danger, Genetically Modified, gm, GMO, hawaii, natural environment, oda, om, organism, organisms, regu, risk, scie, spokesperson, US, USA

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Oki Mollway specified in a ruling that Maui’s county ban on the cultivation of genetically

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EPA denies that some of the most prevalent pesticide chemicals interfere with the hormone system in contrast to the prevailing research

July 7, 2015September 10, 2015 Staff 0 Comments active ingredient, androgen, anger, birth defects, bn, class, crops, decisions, endocrine disruptor, endocrine system, ep, epidemiological studies, european union, executive director, failure, farmers, Food, fr, fur, glyphosate, growth and development, health, health effects, health problems, herbicides, inactive ingredients, living organism, lymphoma, mount sinai school of medicine, organism, pesticide, pregnancy, rare brain, regu, research, resistant weeds, toxic herbicide, US, vitro, weed killer, yale university

The EPA tested the active and inactive ingredients of 52 pesticide chemicals evaluated under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).

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EPA requests public comments and input to protect Monarch butterflies from pesticides

July 2, 2015September 10, 2015 Staff 0 Comments anger, crops, environmental protection agency, ep, fish, glyphosate, health, herbicide, herbicides, milk, outcry, pollinators, public comments, risk

A new study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has specified that pesticides/herbicides play a role in killing milk weed,

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Ontario first jurisdiction in North America to reduce neonicotinoid-coated corn and soybean seeds.

June 15, 2015 Staff 0 Comments agricultural minister, cl, crops, environmental protection agency, ep, farmers, fr, health, honey bee, honey bees, import, insecticides, north america, om, pesticide, pesticide products, pests, presence, regu, risk, risk assessment, seeds, support

Ontario will become the first North American jurisdiction to reduce the number of acres planted with neonicotinoid-coated corn and soybean

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GE moths released without environmental impact study

June 15, 2015 Staff 0 Comments biotechnology company, Corn, crops, department of agriculture, earth, environmental group, environmental impact, environmental impact study, ep, farmers, Food, food safety, fr, genes, oda, om, organic, organic farmer, organic farmers, outrage, plants, publ, risk, US, USDA

An action by Cornell University has outraged environmentalists and grass root activists. Cornell has partnered with Oxitec, (a biotechnology company),

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