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Herbicide

Chemical Warfare

Robert Koehler | Posted 06.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pesticides, Agribusiness, Domination Culture, Herbicide, Monoculture, War on Terror, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Soldiers, Military, Soldiers Antidepressents, Soldiers Medication, Soldiers Drugs, Politics News
Robert Koehler

To fight our insane wars, we're wrecking our soldiers' ability to live with themselves and function in society, then regulating what's left of them with chemicals, which often make things immeasurably worse.

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Herbicide Fume Inhalation Hospitalizes 6 At Suburban High School

Hinsdale Patch | Posted 11.15.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Students Hospitalized, Herbicide, Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Patch, Faculty, Hinsdale Patch, Fume Inhalation, Patch, Chicagoland Patch, Chicago News

Three Hinsdale South High School students were transported to Hinsdale Adventist Hospital in good condition Thursday morning after inhaling an herbici...

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Lucia Graves

Monsanto Under Federal Investigation For Cash Incentives Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.30.2011 | Green
Read More: Federal Investigation, Roundup Ready, Biotechnology, Herbicide, Roundup, Security and Exchange Commission, Genetically Modified, Agriculture, Monsato Profits, Sec, Monsanto, Glyphosate, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Global agribusiness giant Monsanto is under federal investigation for using cash incentives to persuade distributors to use Roundup, the...

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Lucia Graves

Roundup: Scientists Say World's Top-Selling Weedkiller Causes Birth Defects

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.24.2011 | Green
Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Herbicide, European Commission, Agriculture, Epa, Environment, Food Safety, Birth Defects, Regulators, Usda, Monsanto, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The chemical at the heart of the planet’s most widely used herbicide -- Roundup weedkiller, used in farms and gardens across the U.S. ...

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Revealed: How Cities Drive Plants Extinct

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Plants, New York City Parks, Herbicide, Urban Plants, Cities, City Parks, Vegetation, Pollution, Green News

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 ...

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Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Iowa, Herbicide, Indiana, Epa, Ohio, Utilities, Filtration, Lawsuit, Syngenta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Atrazine, Filter, Kansas, Weed-Killer, Tillery, Water, Missouri, Illinois, Drinking Water, Green News

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

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

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Atrazine, Politics, Weed-Killer, Syngenta, Chemical Company, Illinois. Class-Action Lawsuit, Business, Drinking Water, Herbicide, Green News

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

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NRDC Report: Widespread Atrazine Contamination in Drinking Water and Streams

Jennifer Sass | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Water-Contamination, Herbicide, Atrazine Report, Atrazine, Endocrine Disrupting Chemical, Green News
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!

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