Three schoolteachers in Washington state who sued the chemical company Monsanto over exposure to materials in fluorescent lights have been awarded $185m. The law firm that represented the teachers, Friedman Rubin, said a jury returned the verdict on Tuesday in King county superior court. Early life multiple exposures and child cognitive function: A multi-centric birth cohort study in six European countries. Previous evidence for environmental risk factor associations with neurodevelopment is based on analyses of single exposures. The findings describe a list of outcome-related exposures: Diet, house crowding, indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke. Leahy, Sanders and Welch lead regional push for organic dairy support
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vermont) Wednesday led a bicameral group of Northeastern lawmakers in urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to close organic loopholes, strengthen enforcement, and use every tool available to support small- and mid-sized organic dairy farmers. Recent research out of California sought to compare (and quantify) differences in total pesticide use, and in use of pesticides of specific concern, across conventional and organic agricultural fields in the state. The research team, from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, finds an 18–31% likely reduction in spraying of pesticides on organically managed fields compared to conventional, and a 27% likely reduction in use of pesticide products with high acute human toxicity for organic versus conventional fields. ‘The harm to children is irreparable’: Ruth Etzel speaks out ahead of EPA whistleblower hearing. The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning.
Early life multiple exposures and child cognitive function: A multi-centric birth cohort study in six European countries
Previous evidence for environmental risk factor associations with neurodevelopment is based on analyses of single exposures. The findings describe a list of outcome-related exposures: Diet, house crowding, indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke.
Leahy, Sanders and Welch lead regional push for organic dairy support
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vermont) Wednesday led a bicameral group of Northeastern lawmakers in urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to close organic loopholes, strengthen enforcement, and use every tool available to support small- and mid-sized organic dairy farmers.
Research on Thousands of Organic and Chemical-Intensive Farms Illustrates Stark Difference in Toxic Checmical Use
Recent research out of California sought to compare (and quantify) differences in total pesticide use, and in use of pesticides of specific concern, across conventional and organic agricultural fields in the state. The research team, from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, finds an 18–31% likely reduction in spraying of pesticides on organically managed fields compared to conventional, and a 27% likely reduction in use of pesticide products with high acute human toxicity for organic versus conventional fields.
‘The harm to children is irreparable’: Ruth Etzel speaks out ahead of EPA whistleblower hearing
The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect children by ignoring poisons in the environment and focusing on corporate interests, according to a top children’s health official who will testify this week that the agency tried to silence her because of her insistence on stronger preventions against lead poisoning.
Three US teachers who sued Monsanto over chemical exposure awarded $185m
Three schoolteachers in Washington state who sued the chemical company Monsanto over exposure to materials in fluorescent lights have been awarded $185m. The law firm that represented the teachers, Friedman Rubin, said a jury returned the verdict on Tuesday in King county superior court.
