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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

October 7, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: atrazine, drinkingwater, ecosytems, frogs, health, midwest, pesticide, pesticides, simplesteps, toxics

Good news: today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. The review will take about a year...continued→

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Poisoning the Well: atrazine is scary, and it’s everywhere

August 23, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: atrazine, drinkingwater, endocrinedisrupter, EPA, midwest, watershed

Years ago, when I first moved to the Midwest (Columbus, Ohio, to be more precise) from California one of the first things I noticed was the corn. Not corn fields, mind you, although there were plenty of those, but corn...continued→