Former Official Says EPA Fails To Protect Public From Toxic Pesticides
"Federal regulators are discouraged from speaking up about potentially dangerous pesticides, according to a former agency official."
Source: Guardian, 12/20/2023
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Industry May Have Killed Landmark EU Chemical Policy: What It Means For U.S.
"Improvements to a pivotal European chemical policy may have permanently stalled after political pressure and industry interference in what many European environmental advocates say is a step backward for public health."
Source: EHN, 11/10/2023
"Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change"
"The Natural Resources Defense Council is eliminating its longstanding program promoting nuclear safety and cleanup as donors focus on the climate crisis." "A significant shift in donor contributions to nonprofits fighting climate change in recent years has left some of the nation’s biggest environmental organizations facing critical shortfalls in programs on toxic chemicals, radioactive contamination and wildlife protection."
Source: NYTimes, 11/09/2023
EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water
"The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts."
Source: ProPublica, 11/08/2023
"Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools"
"As many as 2 million children attend elementary schools near farms where pesticides are likely applied, as federal legislators aim to gut state and local health protections."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/06/2023
EPA Refuses To Examine Toxicity Of ‘Inactive’ Pesticide Chemicals
"EPA says too many pesticide formulas exist to check all for the safety of ingredients that could harm humans, plants and wildlife".
Source: Guardian, 10/10/2023
"A Legal Victory for the (Very) Little Guys"
"A new court settlement will put the Environmental Protection Agency on track to regulate pesticides more tightly."
"Call it a win for the little species, though all kinds of endangered animals and plants stand to benefit.
A sweeping legal settlement approved this week has put the Environmental Protection Agency on a binding path to do something it has barely done before, by its own acknowledgment: Adequately consider the effects on imperiled species when it evaluates pesticides and take steps to protect them.
Source: NYTimes, 09/15/2023
World's Worst Industrial Disaster Harmed People Even Before They Were Born
"Shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984, about 40 tons of deadly gas leaked out of a pesticide factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal. ....Now, a new study shows that the accident ,,, affected not just those who were exposed to the gas that night but also the generation of babies still in the womb when the accident happened."
Source: NPR, 06/21/2023
"Intensive Farming Is Biggest Cause Of Bird Decline In Europe, Study Says"
"The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said."
Source: Guardian, 05/16/2023
Despite 1996 Law, EPA Still Hasn't Tested Pesticides For Hormone Impacts
"New lawsuit aims to make the agency do what Congress ordered more than 25 years ago."
"In 1996, Congress ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test all pesticides used on food for endocrine disruption by 1999. The EPA still doesn’t do this today.
Nor does it appear close to doing so, argue the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the agency in December for its ongoing failure to implement the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.
Source: EHN, 02/27/2023
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