"Farming Mega-Mergers Threaten Food Security, Say Campaigners"
"Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers".
Source: Guardian, 09/27/2016
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"100 Countries Push To Phase Out Potentially Disastrous Greenhouse Gas"
"A loose coalition of more than 100 countries, including the US and European nations, is pushing for an early phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a powerful greenhouse gas that if left unchecked is set to add a potentially disastrous 0.5C to global temperatures by the end of the century."
Source: Guardian, 09/26/2016
"Deadly Pathogens Repeatedly Dispatched By U.S. Labs To Unsecure Sites"
"The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say".
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 09/23/2016
EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf
"Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law."
Source: Truthout, 09/23/2016
"Pesticide Manufacturers' Own Tests Reveal Serious Harm To Honeybees"
"Bayer and Syngenta criticised for secrecy after unpublished research obtained under freedom of information law linked high doses of their products to damage to the health of bee colonies".
Source: Guardian, 09/23/2016
"FDA Finds Monsanto’s Weed Killer In U.S. Honey"
"The Food and Drug Administration, under public pressure to start testing samples of U.S. food for the presence of a pesticide that has been linked to cancer, has some early findings that are not so sweet."
Source: Huffington Post, 09/21/2016
"Group Says It Has Sued Dow Over Pesticide Used In California"
"Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday."
Source: AP, 09/21/2016
"Bayer Mulls Dropping Monsanto Name as Brand Headache Cure"
"With Bayer AG’s proposed $66 billion purchase of Monsanto Co., the company that invented Aspirin is poised to take on one of the world’s biggest corporate headaches. A potential cure: dropping the Monsanto name."
Source: Bloomberg, 09/21/2016
DEP: No Legal Requirement To Tell Neighbors Of Phosphate Plant Sinkhole
Florida environmental agencies said they are not legally required to notify homeowners whose well water was contaminated by a sinkhole at a major phosphate operation.
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 09/20/2016
$90B Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Four Major Chemical Companies
"Four of the country's largest chemical companies have been accused of selling billions of dollars worth of harmful isocyanate chemicals but intentionally concealing their dangers to consumers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the past several decades."
Source: EcoWatch, 09/19/2016
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