Herbicide

How Cities Drive Plants Extinct

BBC | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green


An international team of botanists has compared extinction rates of plants within 22 cities around the world. Both Singapore and New York City in the ...

Syngenta, Maker Of Weed-Killer Atrazine, Wants Lobbying Documents Excluded From Class-Action Lawsuit

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...

Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green


Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...

NRDC Report: Widespread Atrazine Contamination in Drinking Water and Streams

Jennifer Sass | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green


Jennifer Sass

Say no to the unnecessary use of toxic agriculture chemicals, where safer alternative methods or materials exist. Do it for the future gonads of America!