Beyond Pesticides1d
Public Urged To Tell EPA That It Is Time To Stop Killing Biodiversity with the Weed Killer Atrazine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is officially taking comments on whether to issue new restrictions on the ...
Center for Biological Diversity4y
EPA: Widely Used Pesticide Atrazine Likely Harms More Than 1,000 Endangered Species
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment today finding that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine is likely to harm more than 1,000 of the nation’s most endangered ...
Center for Biological Diversity4y
Endocrine-disrupting Pesticide Atrazine to Be Banned in Hawaii, Five U.S. Territories, Prohibited on Conifers, Roadsides
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that the endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine will be banned in Hawaii and in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa ...
Water monitoring group says pesticides in a northern Ontario river can lead to cancer and other issues
Caption: Atrazine has been banned in Europe since 2004. It is known to cause serious health issues, including tumors, breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers. It may also lead to birth defects, ...
AOL1mon
Biden proposes raising acceptable threshold for common agricultural pesticide
The agency currently considers an average of just 3.4 micrograms per liter of the pesticide atrazine to be an acceptable level. But a proposal released this week raises that level up to 9.7 ...
WSB Radio6d
January Turf Tips: Being proactive but not over-thinking it
Weed & Feed products are being sold in big box stores right now. These are popular because they contain both fertilizer and weed killer. While warm-season lawns that are dormant certainly won't take ...