By William Sanjour In 1978 I was a branch chief in the newly created Hazardous Waste Management Division of EPA. I was charged with supervising the drafting of regulations to implement the hazardous waste portion of …
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Gates Foundation Hired PR Firm to Manipulate UN Over Gene Drives
by Jonathan Latham, PhD The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year paid a PR firm called Emerging Ag $1.6 million to recruit a covert coalition of academics to manipulate a UN decision-making process over …
Continue readingEU Reapproval of Glyphosate Leaves Environmentalists’ Strategy in Tatters; What Now?
by Jonathan Latham, PhD The ecology of Planet Earth is rapidly collapsing under a rising tide of toxic pollution and plastic waste as, in every sector of the economy, natural products and methods are replaced …
Continue readingYears Before Vietnam, the Chemical Industry Knew About Dioxins
Petra Sorge (BuzzFeed Contributor) On 17 November 1953 a catastrophic accident took place at a German chemical plant owned by BASF (Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik). Production went badly out of control and dozens of workers …
Continue readingDicamba Herbicide Drift: A Disaster in 2017, Will Be Much Worse in 2018
by Steve Smith, Chairman of Save Our Crops Coalition. On October 13th, an EPA press release announced the agency’s decision to allow the use of dicamba herbicides during the 2018 growing season for post-emergent weed …
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