Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

(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/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 15, 2024) At first, some thought this was an April Fools’ announcement by pranksters like the YES men. Put out an announcement pretending to be the U.S. Environmental...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/epa-issues-warning-to-farmworkers-instead-of-regulating-a-highly-hazardous-weed-killer-as-an-imminent-threat/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 12, 2024) In honor of Earth Month, Natural Grocers® is partnering with Beyond Pesticides for its seventh annual Ladybug LoveSM campaign. Natural Grocers, a longtime ...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/natural-grocers-supports-organic-communities-and-beyond-pesticides-parks-for-a-sustainable-future-ladybug-love/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 11, 2024) Scientists are moving forward in testing an agroecological method of “push-pull” pest management (reducing the attractiveness of the target organism and lu...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/chemical-intensive-practices-in-florida-citrus-lead-to-harm-and-collapse-as-organic-methods-offer-path-forward/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 10, 2024) Researchers in a 2024 Chemosphere study find synergistic relationships in certain chemical mixtures, particularly heptachlor and triallate and trifluralin and ...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/study-of-chemical-mixtures-at-low-concentrations-again-finds-adverse-health-effects/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 9, 2024) The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion authored by Circuit Judge Cory T. Wilson, has vacated an action by the U.S. Environmenta...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/industry-stops-pfas-restrictions-reverses-epa-in-court-as-plastic-leaches-contaminants/

(Beyond Pesticides, April 8, 2024) When Mexico in 2020 decided to protect its traditional varieties of corn for reasons of health, safety, environmental protection, and food sovereignty with the...

https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2024/04/u-s-acts-to-block-mexico-from-protecting-traditional-varieties-against-contamination-from-engineered-corn-challenging-its-food-sovereignty/