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Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the use of carbaryl, a highly toxic pesticide, in pet collars will be withdrawn! In 2005 NRDC filed a petition to cancel carbaryl. We asked that EPA cancel uses of carbaryl in pet flea collars...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
With the colder weather coming, beekeepers all over the country are getting their hives winter-ready. The experienced beekeepers are harvesting the honey as well, but new-bees like me (get it? newbies? lame, I know) won't be taking any honey this...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
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→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
I was out inspecting my bee hive this weekend. Yep, i've become a hobby beekeeper...its all the rage, dontcha know. Even though on most days my bees love me, yesterday one little rascal had a bad thought about me, culminating...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today, I released a new report on the need for scientific journals to enforce strict and effective conflict disclosure policies for authors, peer reviewers, and even journal editors. The report, titled, Effective and Practical Disclosure Policies: NRDC Paper on Workshop to...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
A report released today by the NRDC Health Program documents many examples of Bush Administration budget cuts to key data collection programs that monitor hazardous pollutants in our air, water, food, and even our bodies. The loss of these monitoring programs will...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
If you've used a pesticide on your lawn in the past 60 years, there's a good chance you've used 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (aka 2,4-D) - a carcinogen that was also one-half of the recipe for the infamous Agent Orange. 2,4-D is a...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
In a great victory for NRDC, public health and worker safety, yesterday the chemical industry capitulated today in their long-running effort to reverse a partial ban on a group of pesticides known as the Ethylene bisdithiocarbamates, or EBDCs for short,...continued→
