The winner of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism was announced this week. InsideClimate News beat out the New York Times and ProPublica to take the top spot for their series “Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather and Climate Change on the American Farm.” “Harvesting Peril describes how the […]
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The EPA has made its last play in a long game of regulatory tug of war regarding the controversial insecticide chlorpyrifos, as the New York Times reports. The epic legal battle unfolded after President Obama initially banned the use of chlorpyrifos in 2015 due to concerns that even low exposures caused neurodevelopmental impacts in children. […]
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The verdict in the latest Roundup cancer trial is in, and it is a really, really big deal. Two billion dollars big, in fact. This news is so huge, even People magazine is covering it. For the third time in a year, a jury has ruled that the glyphosate in Roundup herbicides contributed to plaintiffs’ […]
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Reuters reports that Bayer has issued an apology and will open an external legal investigation into attempts by Monsanto to influence journalists and politicians. Bayer had to take action after French prosecutors opened an investigation following media complaints that Monsanto, which was purchased by Bayer last year, had compiled a file of 200 names of […]
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“Forever chemical” contamination of groundwater is both extremely hazardous and difficult to clean up or otherwise mitigate. They don’t break down, and can continue to move through the hydrogeological system for years, often ending up in wells used for human and livestock drinking water, and crop irrigation. In a compelling, detailed story by Chris Clayton, […]
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Ever wonder about the impact of heavy, year-to-year applications of glyphosate-based herbicides on wildlife and ecosystem food chains? Environmental Health News provides some key, fresh insights in “What’s the world’s most widely used herbicide doing to tiny critters?” We already know that glyphosate and other pesticides have become ubiquitous in streams and groundwater, suggesting ecological impacts are likely […]
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A new presentation is circulating among ag nerds that was given by Tim Creger, the Pesticide/Fertilizer Program Manager for the Nebraska Department of Agriculture to the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO). Creger and his team are responsible for handling all reports of damage from drifting herbicides, and like state agencies around the Midwest […]
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A democratic state legislator from California’s wine country is trying to make history, proposing that the state become the first in the nation to make a large-scale switch to organic foods in school cafeterias. The bill, introduced late last month by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, would launch a new agency within the California Department of Food and […]
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The California chapter of the consumer-interest group U.S. PIRG recently tested 20 popular brands of beer and wine for glyphosate residues, and the report of their findings is attracting some attention. Ninety-five percent, or 19 out of 20, of the products sampled had measurable glyphosate, with concentrations ranging from trace amounts to 51 parts per […]
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In October 2018, the highly regarded medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine published the results of a large French epidemiological study assessing the impact of organic food consumption on cancer. Their remarkable and encouraging core finding is that individuals who consume the most organic food have a 25% lower chance of facing a newly diagnosed cancer, […]
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