A coalition of health and hazardous-materials agencies from King County, Seattle and 38 neighboring communities have done an admirable and rapid job in redesigning a controversial wallet-size shopper’s guide to pesticide-safe produce.
Last month, I reported that the coalition � the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program � pulled the popular card from its Web site and [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s first administrator to have come up through the ranks has been invited to avoid the likely January rush of fleeing agency heads. Stephen Johnson has been asked to resign now.
On the 19th, we ran in the PI a story in the P-I on a hazmat coalition involving King Country and three dozen other political entities that removed from its Web site and handout materials a wallet-sized shopping guide to
which fruits and vegetables contained the most and least pesticides.
The story explained that agri-business groups had [...]
In the chaotic and weird world of regulating agricultural chemicals, EPA gets praised for banning one pesticide and sued for not banning another, all on the same day.
This morning, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco against the EPA to stop the continued use of a pesticide called endosulfan, which has already [...]
The EU and 20 other countries have banned the use of the pesticide endosulfan, but the U.S. continues to permits its application on crops even though it is known to harm the hormone system, and low levels of exposure in the womb have been linked to male reproductive harm, other birth defects and possibly autism.
Locavores take note. A new study from The Organic Center confirms that imported food carries more pesticide residues, so eating locally grown produce is safer.
The Environmental Protection Agency may be underestimating the hazard pesticides pose to salmon. The damage is even greater when pesticides are mixed.
The killing of millions of birds has led a scientific advisory committee to uphold a ban of a highly toxic pesticide called Carbofuran which is also considered a risk to farm workers.
When I started this blog I talked about it being a way to make us more accountable to our readers. Let’s see if it works.
Last month, on Jan. 30, we ran a story on the study examining whether pesticide residues could be detected on food eaten by a group of children on Mercer Island. [...]
Readers worried about pesticides continue asking about the best methods to clean fruits and vegetables before cooking or eating and the effectiveness of the commercial sprays. I’ve read three studies on the more popular sprays for home use. The reports were glowing, the results dramatic, bugs, pesticides and other things you wouldn’t want to eat [...]
