Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

(Beyond Pesticides, April 29, 2024) The contamination and poisoning left behind from wood treatment sites, resulting in hundreds of designated Superfund clean-up sites across the country, is the...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/group-calls-for-banning-of-toxic-wood-preservatives-to-prevent-further-contamination-and-poisoning/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 26, 2024) Researchers build on existing research when assessing the relationship between long-term exposure to organophosphorus pesticides—widely used in food producti...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/more-data-finds-long-term-exposure-to-toxic-pesticides-alters-human-gut-microbiome-and-metabolism/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2024) In a study from earlier this year, “Pesticides: An alarming detrimental to health and environment,” scientists compiled research from 154 articles regardin...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/wide-range-of-harmful-effects-of-pesticides-documented-in-literature-review/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 24, 2024) On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted an “update” to the Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework (Draft Herbicide Strategy Fr...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/epa-draft-herbicide-strategy-update-further-weakens-plan-to-protect-endangered-species/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 23, 2024) The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report last week finding that the agency has failed to establish ...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/epa-inspector-general-report-cites-agency-failures-in-cleanup-of-wood-preservatives-at-superfund-site/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 22, 2024) Today, on Earth Day, the future of the planet and the health of all its inhabitants come into focus from numerous human and ecosystem health perspectives, wit...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/on-earth-day-especially-take-action-to-ensure-a-sustainable-future/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 19, 2024) Parkinson’s disease (PD) and certain forms of dementia have been associated with exposure to pesticides, industrial chemicals, and air pollution for decades...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/research-links-parkinsons-and-lewy-body-disease-with-chemical-effects-on-brain-and-gut/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 18, 2024) University of Michigan researchers have found a statistically significant relationship between heightened risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and house...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/als-risk-elevated-from-toxic-petrochemical-landscape-pesticides-study-adds-to-previous-findings/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 17, 2024) With headlines drawing public attention to the contamination of drinking water after years of federal government neglect, the U.S. Environmental Protection Age...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/forever-chemical-pfas-drinking-water-rules-announced-highlighting-urgency-to-shift-from-petrochemical-pesticides-to-organic-2/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 16, 2024) Citing serious health issues associated with its use, including Parkinson’s disease, and inaction by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the weed...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/california-bill-would-ban-deadly-weedkiller-paraquat-linked-to-parkinsons-disease-in-face-of-epa-inaction/