(Natural News) Agricultural pesticides pose a grave threat to organisms that play an important role in maintaining soil health. These are the findings of a study published Tuesday, May 4, in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland in cooperation with two environmental organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and […]

(Natural News) How can two of the world’s most authoritative research bodies come up with two entirely different conclusions about the toxicity of the most commonly used herbicide? A shocking new analysis from the peer-reviewed science journal Environmental Sciences Europe reveals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confuted and contorted evidence on glyphosate toxicity, […]

(Natural News) If you live anywhere near a corn-growing area, you need to know that your drinking water could contain a dangerous weed killer known as atrazine – even if your water company’s test results appear to indicate otherwise. That’s because seasonal spikes of the herbicide contaminate drinking water at certain times of year, and […]

(Natural News) Atrazine is the most common pesticide found in drinking water and surface water. In fact, it is one of the top two pesticides used in the United States — second only to glyphosate, which is used in Monsanto’s Roundup. As a weedkiller, atrazine is used in industrial farming operations as well as formulations […]

(Natural News) Part of the 1993 ruling by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that first approved the use of “biosludge” on American food crops contends that this treated toilet waste product is of “exceptional quality,” and is thus completely safe. But if this is true, then why are many areas where biosludge is being […]

(Natural News) One of President Donald J. Trump’s original Cabinet picks is proving to be just the warrior the country needs in the battle against expensive, strangling, opportunity-killing Big Government: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. As Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt sued the Obama EPA several times over the agency’s imposition of radical and expensive […]

(Natural News) If there’s one thing that the federal government is good at, it’s taking other people’s money and blowing it on things that are completely unimportant and irrelevant. According to a report put out last month by Judicial Watch, the bloated and horribly wasteful Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) paid a total of $1.5 million […]