Study Finds Pyrethroid Insecticide Levels in Newborns that Increase in First...
(Beyond Pesticides, January 26, 2024) In addition to maternal (mothers) exposure, children experience exposure to pyrethroid insecticides earlier in life as levels significantly increase post-natal...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Glyphosate Exemptions Demonstrates the Importance of Sound...
(Beyond Pesticides, January 30, 2024) The City Council of Brighton and Hove (England) is preparing to expand the use of glyphosate after widespread public complaints over the growth of Japanese...
View ArticleHealth Savings Outweigh Cost of Banning Pesticides Linked to Parkinson’s...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 1, 2024) A study published in Science of The Total Environment finds an insecticide ban would be economically beneficial in preventing Parkinson’s disease (PD). Despite...
View ArticleMother’s Glyphosate Exposure During Pregnancy Increases Child’s Risk of Poor...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 8, 2024) A study published in Environmental Research finds an association between adverse neurodevelopment (brain function and development) among infants and exposure to...
View ArticleAmid Damning Criticism of Its Scientific Integrity, EPA Takes Public Comments...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 12, 2024) Public Comments Due February 23, 2024. As the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) takes public comments on its updated scientific integrity policy (until February...
View ArticleCourt Strikes Down EPA’s Allowance of Weedkiller Dicamba after Scathing...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 13, 2024) Last week, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona struck down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2021 approval of three...
View ArticleTake Action: Advocates Ask Congress to Include Protections from PFAS...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 20, 2024) With health risks including developmental, metabolic, cardiovascular, and reproductive harm, cancer, damage to the liver, kidneys, and respiratory system, as well...
View ArticleWeed Killer 2,4-D’s Adverse Effect on the Liver Adds to List of Hazards from...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 21, 2024) In addition to its effects including cancer, and reproductive, immune or nervous system disruption, according to international findings, a review published in...
View ArticleState Legislation Popping Up to Limit Liability of Pesticide Manufacturers
(Beyond Pesticides, Feb 22, 2024) The Idaho Senate failed to pass SB 1245 last week which would have provided legal protection to pesticide manufacturers from “failure-to-warn” liability. This legal...
View ArticleBayer/Monsanto in Roundup/Glyphosate Case Stung with Largest Multi-Billion...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 23, 2024) The latest string of billion-dollar plaintiff judgments against Bayer/Monsanto, the maker of Roundup™ with active ingredient glyphosate, does not yet signal a...
View ArticleTake Action: Pesticide Manufacturers Ask States To Shield Them from Lawsuits...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 26, 2024) Beyond Pesticides today launched an action to stop a nationwide campaign by chemical manufacturers to shield themselves from liability cases filed by those who...
View ArticlePesticide Exposure Linked to Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Disease...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 27, 2024) Popular culture and official policy continue to ignore a blatant source of the rise in obesity: chemical exposures, including pesticides. A study, “Associations...
View ArticleOregon Is the Latest State to Step In and Ban Widely Used Neurotoxic...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 29, 2024) In the face of federal inaction, an Oregon regulation banning the agricultural uses of the highly toxic chlorpyrifos took effect on January 1, 2024. Chlorpyrifos...
View ArticleEPA and Court Allow Violations and Hazards of Weed Killer Dicamba Under...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 5, 2024) Buried in a court decision in February that determined that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the law in allowing harm associated with the...
View ArticleInspector General Finds Widely Used Flea Collars Still Not Fully Evaluated by...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 6, 2024) With over 2,500 pet deaths and 900 reports of adverse effects to people, an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, published on February 29, 2024, reveals multiple...
View ArticleStudy Provides First Combined Assessment of Multiple Classes of Pesticides in...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 8, 2024) A major problem has vexed pesticide regulators and researchers for decades: Humans and other organisms almost always have multiple pesticides in their bodies, but...
View ArticleTake Action: Chemical Mixture Issues in Pesticide Products Elevated by the...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 11, 2024) Inside a recent disagreement between the Office of the Inspector (OIG) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) on the...
View ArticleStudy Shows the Prevalence of Toxic Pesticide Leaching into Groundwater...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 12, 2024) A study released in Science of the Total Environment unpacks the threat of emerging chemicals of concern (CECs), including toxic pesticides, in the groundwater of...
View ArticlePetrochemical Pesticides, Fertilizers, and Plastics Linked to Dire Health...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 14, 2024) A recent review in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) highlights the urgent need to address the widespread chemical pollution stemming from the...
View ArticleCoral Reefs Under Threat by Glyphosate, Toxic Pesticides
(Beyond Pesticides, March 15, 2024) Toxic pesticides harm all beings and ecosystems, including coral reefs. Large benthic foraminifera (LBF) are single-celled organisms found on reefs that face adverse...
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