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07/12/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Flawed testing and compromised regulatory agencies have conspired to keep harmful pesticides on the market

Even in 2018, as we have more access to information than ever before, some people seem willing to give pesticides the benefit of the doubt. They can’t be that bad, they reason, or they never would have gotten approval. Surely there are tests that show they’re not as dangerous as people think, right? The answer […]

07/05/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Monsanto “scientists” have been releasing dubious studies since the 1970s and the EPA has let much of it slide — why are we only learning about this now?

When you hear about the dangers of pesticides, it might be tempting to think that it’s a new discovery made possible by increasingly sophisticated technology. Now that we know they’re bad, their use will be banned, and humanity will be spared, right? That’s what you’d like to think, but the truth is that the very […]

12/28/2016 / By JD Heyes

Idaho regulators shut down polluting gold mine as it dumps arsenic into Boise River

Environmental regulators in the state of Idaho have moved to shutter a gold mine that had been operating illegally after discovering that it was also dumping dangerous arsenic into the Boise River, the Idaho Statesman reported. In fact, the mine, called Atlanta Gold, is continuing to dump the dangerous heavy metal into a tributary of […]

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