Rep. Carbajal and Sen. Padilla introduced legislation authorizing $6M annually for NOAA to investigate offshore DDT waste in ...
A banned pesticide that was outlawed decades ago is still turning up in the rice, corn, wheat, and beans that millions of ...
U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the Ocean Protection and DDT Reduction Act, new legislation aimed at addressing the toxic industrial waste ...
CONTAMINATION ZONE By 1994, DDT and other chemicals had been seeping into land and water at the United Heckathorn Co. Superfund site in Richmond for nearly three decades. The initial cleanup was a ...
Hundreds of pesticides are legal, but that doesn’t mean that their impacts on health are fully understood. Cleaning produce before eating it reduces your exposure. Want more news about agriculture?
EPA awarded over $15 million in grant funding to ten institutions for research to reduce per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure from food and protect our farmland and farming communities.
The approvals cover products that can be sprayed on staple crops including wheat and citrus, even as scientists continue studying the long-term health effects of PFAS. The EPA approved three new ...
The Trump administration has approved three new pesticides that may be considered “forever chemicals” under an international definition, though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is disputing ...
The order, which calls for studying the health risks of pesticides in the food supply, does not involve new federal funding, and does not call for regulations or legislation. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg ...
Many consumers assume that food labeled organic is grown without pesticides. The reality is more nuanced. Organic farmers can and do use pesticides, but the types of pesticides they use, the ...
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