"A Killer Within Easy Reach"
"Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones."
Source: NYTimes, 06/11/2025
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"Ecologists’ Horror As Nature Reserves Are Emptied Of Insects"
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides"
Source: Guardian, 06/09/2025
"Pesticide Report Led By RFK Jr. Draws Fire From Agrichemical Industry"
"A new White House report linking pesticides to children’s health concerns is drawing backlash from farm groups and support from environmental advocates."
Source: Investigate Midwest, 06/09/2025
"White House Releases Details About Proposed Budget Cuts"
"EPA’s core workforce would shrink to its smallest size since the mid-1980s, while funding for numerous grant programs would be zeroed out, according to new documents released Friday."
Source: E&E News, 06/02/2025
Pesticide Firms Ask Lawmakers For Immunity From Lawsuits By Sick Farmers
"Ray Bickel spent over a decade driving a truck through giant corn and soybean fields in Clinton County, Iowa, applying pesticides. He says it was good work, while it lasted." “He was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which is blood and bone marrow cancer."
Source: KWQC, 05/28/2025
Advocates Applaud MAHA Report On Chemical Harms, But Say It Falls Short
"Exposures to pesticides and other chemicals, ultra-processed foods and over-prescription of medications are among the factors contributing to an epidemic of chronic disease in America’s children, according to a government report issued Thursday by the Trump administration’s controversial “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission.'
Source: The New Lede, 05/28/2025
"RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Targets Food, Drug, Tech Industries: Key Takeaways"
"The Trump administration issued its long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report Thursday, hammering various industries while deviating from mainstream science on key issues including farming practices, vaccinations and psychiatric medications."
Source: The Hill, 05/23/2025
"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."
Source: Civil Eats, 05/22/2025
"Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men"
"An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts."
Source: NYTimes, 05/21/2025
EPA Cheered For Easing Regulatory “Burdens” On Farmers Using Insecticides
"Farm groups were cheering moves announced this week by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will alter endangered species protections to allow for easier use of certain pesticides in agriculture."
Source: The New Lede, 05/02/2025
