Is There Enough Evidence of Health Risks for the EPA to Ban Paraquat?
by Civil Eats | February 12, 2025
The question of cause is already proving contentious in the Parkinson’s disease lawsuits; judges have ruled that they won’t allow testimony from an expert on whether paraquat is capable of causing Parkinson’s disease in the lead up to the first trial, scheduled to start in October. ...
Study Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Increasingly Common in Pesticides
by Civil Eats | July 24, 2024
More and more pesticides approved for use on U.S. farm fields qualify as “forever chemicals,” new research shows, raising questions around their long-term environmental and public health consequences. The new analysis, published today in Environmental Health Perspectives, represents ...
Medically Important Antibiotics Are Still Being Used to Fatten Up Pigs
by Civil Eats | June 12, 2024
The nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retract a memo it released last year that reported the agency found no evidence of PFAS in its tests of commonly used pesticides. EPA initiated ...
New Evidence Shows Pesticides Contain PFAS, and the Scale of Contamination Is Unknown
by Civil Eats | November 7, 2022
At the time, no one was talking about PFAS in pesticides, and Lasee didn’t know what to make of his results. That changed last year, when he began to see news coming out of two states. First, in December 2020, the nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...
