Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
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→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
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→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the residues of the pesticide carbofuran that end up on our food and in our drinking water are too high, and may be unsafe. Thus, after first registering the chemical for...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Over a meeting lasting four days last week, a panel of scientific experts reviewed the data underlying the US Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to ban all domestic uses of carbofuran (trade name Furadan), a nasty war-era pesticide manufactured by FMC...continued→
