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The United States Environmental Protection Agency just reversed its registration of a next-generation herbicide meant for mass use on America’s crops.

By Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray. There may even be shouting. Such is the current state of affairs between two camps of scientists: health effects researchers ...

In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that the there was “no convincing evidence” that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide ‘Roundup,’ is an endocrine disruptor. The conclusion was based on an assessment of 52 chemicals and the likelihood that any of them could be classified as such. [1]

Seven million liters of Corexit were sprayed from airplanes following the spill.
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This unholy matrimony between the EPA and Monsanto has resulted in sound science’s divorce from the planet’s health.
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By Tracy Frisch | Independent Science News | November 2, 2015 As in other parts of North America, beekeepers in New York have been experiencing unsustainable losses of honeybee colonies. In 2014-15, annual colony losses in New York reached 54 per cent, according to the Bee Informed Partnership survey. And though losses were lower in […]

Obama enlists big pharma to fight WV drug epidemic; Cops want even more of your DNA; DuPont loses toxic Teflon case.

Could it be that premier scientific journals are finally conveying the truth about GMOs? In a relatively recent exploration of ‘ubiquitous’ GMOs that have taken over our food supply, the New England Journal of Medicine tackles 2 new concerns over genetically modified organisms and the pesticides used to grow them.

By John Laforge | CounterPunch | October 14, 2015 “[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in […]

A federal appeals court has made a swift decision that will not make the CEO of Dow AgroScience happy, though it just might help save our bees.