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Thumbs up for our new EPA on toxic chemicals and pesticides

October 28, 2009

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

Tags:: atrazine, carbaryl, carbofuran, EPA, hazard, inerts, IRIS, pesticide, regulation, scientificintegrity, toxic, toxicchemicals, TRI

Under the leadership of the Obama Administration, and with Administrator Lisa Jackson at the helm of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) all sorts of good things have been happening to increase public transparency, scientific integrity, and health protections. Many of...continued→

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New data confirms widespread atrazine contamination in drinking water and streams

August 21, 2009

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

Tags:: agriculture, atrazine, pesticide, simplesteps, syngenta, toxic, toxicchemicals, water, watershed

In today's new NRDC atrazine report we analyzed a mountain of data showing widespread water contamination from atrazine, a toxic herbicide. The data was mostly, but not all, generated by Syngenta, the main manufacturer of atrazine. Are you drinking atrazine in your...continued→