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Beyond Neonics: New Study Shows Glyphosate Also Major Threat to World's Honey Bee Population

'I Don't Want to Lie to Myself Anymore': Calling Macron's Timid Steps on Climate Inadequate, French Environment Minister Resigns in Protest

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Nicolas Hulot

"We strive to maintain an economic model that is responsible for all these climatic disorders," declared Nicolas Hulot

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"It's About Time": Canada Celebrated for Banning Bee-Killing Neonics While US Backslides

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Unfortunately, it looks like the EPA is trying to be the last agency on Earth...

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'Major Victory for Public Health': Court Orders Trump EPA to Ban Pesticide That Harms Kids' Brains

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today...

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'An Insult to Our National Wildlife': Trump Reverses Ban on GMOs and Bee-Killing Pesticides in Refuges

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With "Mountainous" Evidence on Plaintiffs' Side, Hundreds of Cancer Cases Against Monsanto Get Green Light

As Trump EPA Attacks Workers and Environment, Trio of Lawsuits Takes Aim at "Outrageous" Pro-Pesticide Agenda

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As Landmark Glyphosate Case Moves to Trial, Man Dying of Cancer to Have Day in Court With Monsanto

New Study Raises Alarm About Exposure to Glyphosate Pesticides at Levels the EPA Claims Are "Safe"

'Huge Win for Pollinators, People, and Planet': EU Bans Bee-Killing Pesticides

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Alarm Sounds After EU Regulators Greenlight Bayer-Monsanto 'Merger From Hell'

Boosting Hopes for Total Ban, EU Regulator's New Assessment Confirms Neonics' Harm to Bees

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Despite Major Public Opposition, EU Reportedly Set to Approve Bayer-Monsanto #MergerFromHell

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Report Illustrates Dire Consequences of Corporate Consolidation Throughout Global Food Chain

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Ahead of EU Glyphosate Vote, Greenpeace Demands Nothing Less Than Total Ban

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Tainted Honey: Bee-Poisoning Pesticides Found Globally

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Center for Biological Diversity

Reviews of Glyphosate's Cancer Risk Failed to Fully Disclose Monsanto's Role...

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EPA Watchdog: 'Emergency' Pesticide Approval Process Is Flawed...

Center for Biological Diversity

Legal Petition Urges Feds to End Toxic Agricultural Pesticide Use on Alabama Wildlife Refuge Complex

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Local Limits on Spraying Monsanto’s Toxic Weed Killer in Parks, Playgrounds and Schoolyards Blocked by House Republican Farm Bill

Friends of the Earth

On heels of Canada and EU bans, EPA Stalls Review of Bee-Killing Pesticides

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

EWG Responds to General Mills and Quaker Oats: ‘Legal Is Not the Same as Safe’

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Ruchi Shroff

Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History

Alfonso Saldaña, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

A Cancer on Society: Monsanto Claims Right Not to Speak About Roundup

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Pesticides Are Making Children Aggressive

Katherine Paul

From 'Sea to Shining Sea,' Industrial Ag Fouls America's Waterways

Sonya Lunder

Pruitt’s EPA Abandoning Duty to Protect Kids From Dangerous Pesticides

Ruchi Shroff

New Study Shows Glyphosate Contaminated Soils Put Half of Europe at Risk

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20 Years of GM Soy in the Southern Cone of Latin America, 20 Reasons for a Definitive Ban

Katherine Paul

Six Reasons We’ll Need to Ramp Up the #ConsumerRevolution under Trumpism

Oya Ayman

Something Strange Is In the Air

David Suzuki, Faisal Moola

Cleaning Up Mercury a Must in Grassy Narrows

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