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Stand Up to Pesticides

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Mari Rose Taruc, Epa, Pesticides, Atrazine, Organic Food, Organic Center, Mother Jones, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Until recently the EPA has considered atrazine, the second-most widely used pesticide in the U.S. "non-carcinogenic." Last week, however, findings were released with "strong" epidemiological evidence linking the pesticide to various cancers.

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Atrazine Use Rises While EPA Twiddles Its Thumbs

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Pollution, Water Pollution, Nrdc, Syngenta, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

It's been a good year for Syngenta, the maker of the endocrine-disrupting chemical atrazine. Last week, the company reported double-digest growth in sales and net income for the first half of 2011.

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Follow the Evidence and Save the Frogs

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Nrdc, Amphibians, Animals, EPA Atrazine, Frogs, Wildlife, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

Last week Jon Entine, a visiting fellow with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, attacked the link between the decline of frogs globally a...

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Green News Report: January 11, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Cap and Trade, Glaciers, Epa, Regulation, Pipelines, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Infrastructure, Rising Sea Level, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, White House Oil Spill Commission, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Oil, Fox News, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Population, Co2, Carbon Capture and Storage, Central Intelligence Agency, Flouride, Factory Farms, Dioxin, Weed Killer, Water Contamination, Atrazine, Haiti Earthquake, Cleanl Energy, National Security, Germany, Egg Recall, Contamination, Financial Crisis, Tom Donohue, Solar Power, Biofuels, Darrell Issa, Four Loko, Cia, International Space Station, Gabrielle Giffords, Chamber of Commerce, Alaska, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The final...

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Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Agricultural Pesticides, Cancer, Atrazine, Chemicals, Water Pollution, Sandra Steingraber, Green News
Annie Spiegelman

Living Downstream corroborates a connection between cancer and the filmmaker's hometown's polluted waters from PCBs and the ubiquitous contamination of atrazine, the 2nd most widely used weedkiller in the world.

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Will Science-Phobia Kill the Green Revolution?

Jon Entine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Biotechnology, Atrazine, Gmos, World Hunger, Haiti, Glyphosate, Ngos, Green News
Jon Entine

There is no zero sum trade-off between technology, productivity and sustainability. The world's poor do not have the luxury to play the ideological games that dominate Western politics.

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Escape from the Heartland - Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atrazine, Cancer Prevention, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Corn, Kfc, Breast Cancer, Illinois, Cancer, Breast Cancer Action, Buckets for the Cure Campaign, Iowa, Weedkiller, Pesticide, Indiana, Green News
Sandra Steingraber

When you are peddling fried chicken breasts in the name of addressing breast cancer, you are distracting us from an ongoing battle about the use of atrazine in the creation of that food.

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Atrazine spikes in Missouri prompt community warning

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Missouri, Drexel, Atrazine, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

It’s been a rainy spring here in the Midwest and that mean worries about flooded basements, streets, and towns.  Many of our streams and cr...

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U.S. Congressman Renews Attempts to Ban Controversial Herbicide Atrazine

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atrazine, Banning Atrazine, Weed Killer, Water, EPA Atrazine, Green News

A member of Congress is seeking to ban one of the nation's most widely-used herbicides, which has turned up in drinking water in some states.&nbs...

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A Bridge to Somewhere - Responding to the President's Cancer Panel Report (Part 1)

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Farming, Environmental Health, Organic Food, Smithsonian Institution, President's Cancer Panel, Cancer, US Congress, Atrazine, Washington DC, Healthy Living News
Sandra Steingraber

The government has a role to play in making cancer-preventing dietary choices available and affordable for the citizenry and in divorcing our food system from its current dependencies on carcinogens.

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Why We All Need to Demand Organic and . . . Worship the Worm

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maria Rodale, Epa, Pesticides, Organic Farming, Atrazine, Organic Gardening, Organic Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic, Books News
Annie Spiegelman

In her new book, Maria Rodale explains why and how we must immediately begin to undo the damage we have done to the environment and to ourselves.

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American Water Company Joins Lawsuit Against Syngenta, Maker Of Atrazine Herbicide

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Weeds, Epa, Ohio, Public Health, Utilities, Herbicides, American Water Company, Chemicals, Pollution, Water Utility, Weed Killer, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Switzerland, Atrazine, Kansas, Clean Water, Missouri, Delaware, Illinois, Standards, Drinking Water, Green News

The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbici...

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Silent Spring Has Sprung

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tyrone Hayes, Atrazine, Water, Nrdc, Rachel Carson, Environment, Green News, Silent Spring, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Epa, Ddt, Drinking Water, Green News
Randall Amster

the pervasive use of the herbicide atrazine raises a host of ecological and political questions that are strikingly reminiscent of those confronted by Rachel Carson.

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Spring Gardening 2010: Compost Is In, Chemicals Are So Out!

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, Atrazine, Organic Gardening, Compost, Garden, Ewg, Gardening, Chemicals, Organic, Green News
Annie Spiegelman

Are home gardeners going to be hoodwinked this season into buying more chemicals to feed their crops and contaminate their entire zip codes or will they smarten up and go organic?

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Is Our Sexuality (and Our Future) at Stake?

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Pesticides, Atrazine, Agriculture, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

Many of our wells and waterways are contaminated with unsafe levels of atrazine, and the chemical has been linked to reproductive effects in humans.

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16 Cities Sue Manufacturer Of Atrazine Weed-Killer For Contaminating Drinking Water

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atrazine, Drinking Water, Roundup, Cities Sue Syngenta, Atrazine Drinking Water, Syngenta, Weed Killer, Video, Green News

A coalition of communities in six Midwestern states filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to force the manufacturer of a widely-used herbicide to...

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Our Toxic Waterways: Flushing Away Our Future?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ian Cheney, Big River, Glenn Beck, King Corn, Pollution, Atrazine, Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Given the choice, most folks prefer their creeks and canals to be contaminant-free. Sadly, too many communities haven't got a choice. They're up a rancid river without a paddle.

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Green News Report -- March 4, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hydroelectric, Walmart, Toxic Water, Energy Independence, Ipcc, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Epa, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Cyber Bullying, Climategate, Coal, Barack Obama, Wal-Mart, Frogs, Phil Jones, Bush Administration, Energy Efficiency, Atrazine, Mountaintop Removal, National Security, BRAD BLOG, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Climate Change Skeptics, Air Pollution, Homestar, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Atrazine, Common Weed-Killer, Chemically Castrates Frogs: Study

AFP | Karin Zeitvogel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frogs Chemical Castration, Weed Killer Frogs, Atrazine, Frogs Castration, Amphibian Population, Atrazine Low Sperm, Animals, Frogs, Weed Killer, Green News

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- One of the most common weed-killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be killing off amphibian...

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Farmers Fighting for Their Health: Taking on Chemical Companies and Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Farming, Pesticides, Atrazine, Cancer, Rural America, Agriculture, Green News
Paula Crossfield

No farmer has succeeded in taking on Big Chem for their illnesses in the U.S. because it is especially difficult to get medical recognition for the disease-occupation correlation.

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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Drinkingwater, Simplesteps, Atrazine, Toxics, Midwest, Health, Ecosytems, Pesticide, Frogs, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

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.

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The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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In Reversal Of Bush Policy, EPA Launches New Study of Atrazine's Health Effects

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: EPA Drinking Water, Atrazine, Barbara Boxer, Atrazine Water, Epa, Environment, Drinking Water, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...

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BP Slapdown: EPA Really is Back on the Job!

Henry Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Bp, Nrdc, Northwest Indiana, Epa, British Petroleum, Bp Whiting Refinery, Indiana, Coal Industry, Lake Michigan, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection Agency, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Asthma, Air Pollution, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.

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Diabetes and Endocrine Disruption: Connecting the Dots

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Atrazine, Diabetes, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

I consider myself fairly well-read, and educated about health. I've researched the endocrine disruption effects of chemicals--that is, the ways that c...

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