Intercepted podcast: EPA pressures scientists in chemical cases
Intercept reporter Sharon Lerner interviews the whistleblowers who provided key evidence substantiating the fact that corruption continues at high levels within the EPA to ensure...
Pesticide caused kids’ brain damage, California lawsuits say
Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over chlorpyrifos, a widely used bug killer linked to...
New York lawmakers move to ban pesticides at summer camps
New York would be the first in the nation to ban the use of pesticides at children’s summer camps under legislation passed by state lawmakers...
Angelina Jolie embraces bees—and female beekeepers as environmental guardians
Jolie was inspired by different visions: of bees as an indispensable pillar of our food supply— under threat from parasites, pesticides, habitat loss, and climate...
Pesticides are becoming increasingly toxic for the world’s most important insects
Over the last 25 years, the toxicity of 381 pesticides in the U.S. more than doubled for pollinators and aquatic invertebrates such as crustaceans, mayflies,...
Court rules that EPA’s delay “exposed a generation of American children” to brain-damaging pesticide
The ruling represents a stark repudiation of the Trump EPA’s refusal to ban chlorpyrifos.
Pesticide DDT linked to increased breast cancer risk generations after exposure
A woman’s exposure to the pesticide DDT during pregnancy can increase her granddaughter’s risk for breast cancer decades later, according to a new study. Published...
Move to consolidate US paraquat litigation as cases mount against Syngenta
Lawyers suing Swiss chemical company Syngenta are asking a U.S. judicial panel to consolidate more than a dozen similar lawsuits under the oversight of a...