Category: Pesticides

Maybe EPA will ban the wind farm? Where’s Bill Ruckelshaus? Continue reading Maryland wind farm projected to kill more bald eagles than DDT

Richard Tren (Africa Fighting Malaria) explains in the WSJ the junk science attack on neonicotinoid pesticides by the EU. Continue reading Tren: Environmentalists Try to Squash a Bug Killer

A junk science-fueld attack on insecticides continues. Continue reading Claim: UK betraying bees

“The 2012 West Nile season was the worst on record in Texas. More than 1800 were infected, 86 people died.” Continue reading Mosquito-Fighting Plan Allows Access To Private Property With No Warrant

New weeds can be managed by new herbicides — but those herbicides have first to make it through the technology-resistant political/regulatory process. Continue reading MOJO: Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds

In poor Granadians, decades after the pesticide was banned? Continue reading DDT causes type 2 diabetes?

Contrary to enviro claims. Continue reading Study: No cancer risk from atrazine

Syngenta’s response is here. Continue reading EU proposes to ban insecticides linked to bee decline

“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of 12 D-Con mouse and rat poison products produced by Reckitt Benckiser Inc. because these products fail to comply with current EPA safety standards.” Continue reading EPA makes world safer for rats

So after 70 years of widespread pesticide use, why are there any frogs alive? Continue reading Claim: Common pesticides ‘can kill frogs within an hour’

Imaginary threats to bees pose actual threats to EU farmers. Continue reading Syngenta responds to EU attack on widely used pesticide