Amazing work from @veritasium.bsky.social! Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?...

Government-run, nonprofit grocery systems can better respond to food-price inflation, corporate consolidation, and inequality. civileats.com/2025/08/20/op...

Make America Healthy Again wants farmers to produce healthier food, but the climate crisis and Trump’s energy policies are making that harder to do. civileats.com/2025/08/12/th...

The counties with the highest use of pesticides per square mile are all located in Missouri’s Bootheel. Many of these counties have some of the state’s highest cancer rates and their health care options are dwindling. investigatemidwest.org/2025...

Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides. civileats.com/2025/09/08/ep...

The MAHA Commission strategy report confirms that the administration has no real plans to reduce exposures to pesticides. Further, it broadly reaffirms the administration’s continued reliance on voluntary industry compliance rather than enforceable federal regulation. www.panna.org/news/pesticid...

Vox: "Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that." www.vox.com/health/460086/r...

"Five days into a 30-day hunger strike, Omar Dieguez said he was hungry. He had prepared for this action for months, he said, and practiced fasting for several days at a time." santacruzlocal.org/2025/09/...

The study, published Thursday in the journal ACS ES&T Water, comes as the Trump administration is overhauling a rule mandating that water systems take action to clean up forever chemicals in drinking water. www.wired.com/story/we-can-...

URGENT - CALL YOUR REPS: Today at 10AM ET, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee will vote on appropriations text that would 1) enshrine lawsuit immunity for pesticide manufacturers 2) preempt states' ability to regulate pesticides and

Pollinator Week is NOT just about honey bees! Pesticides endanger all kinds of pollinators including some that may give you the “ick,” but, I’m going to ask you to consider “swiping right” on wasps, too. www.panna.org/news/wasps-po...

10 Ways for Growers to Support Pollinators www.panna.org/news/10-ways-...

Over the last two decades, neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, have swiftly become the most widely used class of insecticides globally. Unfortunately for our pollinators, neonics are very efficient at dealing death. www.panna.org/news/neonics-...

A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.” www.commondreams.org/newswi...

Pollinator Week is NOT just about honey bees! Pesticides endanger all kinds of pollinators including some that may give you the “ick,” but, I’m going to ask you to consider “swiping right” on wasps, too. www.panna.org/news/wasps-po...

For the last few years, Iowa has had the second-highest rate of cancer in the nation, and is only one of two US states where cancer is increasing. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

The results of the two-year study, which were published June 10 in the journal Environmental Health, add to an ongoing global debate over the safety of the pesticide, which is commonly used by farmers to kill weeds in fields and pastures. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

During the trial, Grantges’ lawyer presented jurors with evidence that Monsanto long had knowledge of research showing a connection between glyphosate and cancer, but worked to hide the evidence rather than warning its customers. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

In a proposed rule change announced on March 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service want to change the way they interpret the Endangered Species Act, which they collectively administer, by rescinding the definition of “harm.” civileats.com/2025/05/07/a-...

Researchers increasingly suspect that environmental toxins, detected in everything from urine and blood serum to breast milk and amniotic fluid, play a significant role in increasingly common female reproductive health disorders. usrtk.org/healthwire/endocr...

Big Oil "knew ‪decades ago that burning fossil fuels would cause, in its own words, 'globally catastrophic' harm." What did the industry do with that knowledge? "It actively lied and deceived people," said @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social The public deserves accountability!

Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network @pesticideaction.bsky.social is proud to be part of this effort to push US EPA to DO THEIR JOB and protect farmworkers, their children and others from the harmful effects of neurotoxic pesticides. bit.ly/4kYN9vl

A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.” www.commondreams.org/newswi...

For the last few years, Iowa has had the second-highest rate of cancer in the nation, and is only one of two US states where cancer is increasing. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

10 Ways for Growers to Support Pollinators www.panna.org/news/10-ways-...

The results of the two-year study, which were published June 10 in the journal Environmental Health, add to an ongoing global debate over the safety of the pesticide, which is commonly used by farmers to kill weeds in fields and pastures. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

During the trial, Grantges’ lawyer presented jurors with evidence that Monsanto long had knowledge of research showing a connection between glyphosate and cancer, but worked to hide the evidence rather than warning its customers. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/...

In a proposed rule change announced on March 17, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service want to change the way they interpret the Endangered Species Act, which they collectively administer, by rescinding the definition of “harm.” civileats.com/2025/05/07/a-...

Bayer this week put a halt to its latest courtroom battle over allegations that its weed-killing products cause cancer, just ahead of an important US Supreme Court consideration. @pesticideaction.bsky.social @beyondpesticides.org www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/baye...

Over the last two decades, neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, have swiftly become the most widely used class of insecticides globally. Unfortunately for our pollinators, neonics are very efficient at dealing death. www.panna.org/news/neonics-...

Over the last two decades, neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, have swiftly become the most widely used class of insecticides globally. Unfortunately for our pollinators, neonics are very efficient at dealing death. www.panna.org/news/neonics-...

✨ Our new op-ed in the Press Democrat: It’s time to #MakePollutersPay for climate damages instead of working Californians. Senate President Mike McGuire must lead California lawmakers to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act! Read more: https://loom.ly/OgU0FLU

Last week the #MAHA Commission released a report that acknowledged some important things: - the corporate capture of governmental agencies - that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor and causes birth defects Where does the report fall short? One of our scientists took a look to break it down. 🧪

At the #BRSCOPs2025 Make Visible the Invisible Fair, @toxicsfree.bsky.social and PAN, hosted the ☕Chlorpyrifos-Free Café, serving organic/chlorpyrifos-free coffee and snacks to conference delegates. More information ⏩https://pan-international.org/brs-cop-2025/ #BanChlorpyrifosNow

Join PAN & @ca4pesticidereform.bsky.social for a webinar introducing our new tool which integrates US Census data with CA DPR pesticide use data to allow scientists, researchers, communities, etc. to assess the climate justice impacts of pesticides. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/calif... #science 🧪

At the #BRSCOPs2025 Make Visible the Invisible Fair, @toxicsfree.bsky.social and @pesticideaction.bsky.social held a #ToxicFree pause café as they shared Chlorypyrifos-free coffee and snacks and conversations with delegates and participants.

📄 [Press review ahead of the BRS COPs 2025] 📄 @followers ⏬ www.siasat.com/pan-to-bat-f...

In Geneva, the COPs for the BRS 2025 are in progress 👍 PAN is on the ground advocating for strong global action on harmful pesticides and promoting sustainable alternatives. Explore our priorities and reports, learn about our side event and latest activities ➡️ pan-international.org/brs-cop-2025/

Activist and author Robin Greenfield offers his suggestions for strengthening your community through food. civileats.com/2025/04/07/li...

From 2000 to 2020, butterfly populations fell by 22% across about 554 species, a group of 33 authors from nonprofits, universities, and state and federal agencies recently reported. Habitat loss, a warming climate and chemical use in agriculture are among the factors. www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/...

In Maine, Maryland, and beyond, the industry is using a well-worn playbook to slow legislators’ attempts to get forever chemicals out of food and water. civileats.com/2024/12/18/wh...

Besieged by thousands of lawsuits alleging that its paraquat weedkiller causes Parkinson’s disease, Syngenta has entered into an agreement aimed at settling large swaths of those claims. www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/...

The Southern Environmental Law Center on Monday filed a court motion to intervene in a case brought against Chemours and its predecessor company DuPont, attorneys for which have asked the court to keep up to 21,000 pages of documents under seal. www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/...

The world’s leading climate experts emphasized in their latest series of reports that the food system is already being pummeled by climate change and that impacts on food security will get worse. civileats.com/food-policy-t...

The arid Southwest has a proven model, the acequia, for water use that is local, democratic, and resilient to heat and drought. civileats.com/2025/04/22/an...

😱 Bayer's weedkiller #Roundup has led to > 180.000 US lawsuits by cancer victims. #glyphosate 😡 At tomorrow's AGM, #Bayer will tell shareholders it will do everything it can to stop victims going to court. 📢 100+ organisations tell shareholders to stop Bayer! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04/n...

#Roundup has led to > 180,000 lawsuits in the US by citizens suffering from cancer. Today #Bayer CEO Bill Anderson will tell shareholders that Bayer will do everything to stop victims going to court. 100+ organizations urge say NO. Read the letter: www.corporateeurope.org/en/...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Sunday said the Trump administration’s “bad for science” policies will send America’s researchers into the arms of China and other nations. www.politico.com/news/2025/...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin defended the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental deregulation agenda Sunday, saying it would not harm the environment and aligns with Americans’ economic concerns. thehill.com/policy/energy-e...

"In the shared act choosing to care, we can find a way forward. One rooted in fairness, shaped by resilience and elevated by hope. Even when institutions falter, the mission doesn’t have to." #EarthDay www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...