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May 11, 2009
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- cancer, carbamate, carbofuran, FQPA, hazard, pesticide, simplesteps, toxic, toxicchemicals
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has cancelled all food uses of a nasty toxic bird-killing, worker-poisoning pesticide called carbofuran. Yay! Way to earn back the "EP" in your name, EPA! Initially, EPA had said that although uses...continued→
July 23, 2008
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- chemicals, endosulfan, FIFRA, FQPA, illegal, lawsuit, organic, persistent, pesticide, pollutant, simplesteps, toxic
Today NRDC joined a coalition of advocacy groups filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to consider all the risks associated with endosulfan, an extremely hazardous persistant bioaccumulative pesticide and the topic of several previous NRDC...continued→
