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World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

Termites? No problem. On DoMyOwnPestControl.com, $64.99 buys a 20-ounce bottle of Termidor SC. That’s enough for anyone with a credit card

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EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

State officials ignored scientists in approving pesticide

By Amy Standen

Dangerous disease, dangerous remedy

By Jillian Olsen

New EPA scrutiny for Atrazine reflected in Center’s database complaints

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

Back in December, our story, Pets and Pesticides: Let’s Be Careful Out There, reported that an alarming number of deaths had been linked to

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World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

EPA increases scrutiny of flea and tick treatments

By M.B. Pell

EPA cracks down on flea, tick labels in wake of Center probe

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

EPA’s hormonal ups and downs

By Jillian Olsen

EPA’s hormonal ups and downs

By Jillian Olsen

Warning: the following contains an actual example of environmental advocates agreeing with the chemical industry. Both sides say that the En

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Low doses of some chemicals tied to health effects

By Marla Cone

EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

U.S. report urges deeper look into breast cancer's environmental links

By Jim Morris

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Europe’s new pesticide regulations leave America in the dust

By Jillian Olsen

The European Parliament’s environment committee voted last week in favor of new pesticide regulations that make America’s laws look a little

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World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape

By Ronnie Greene

Rethinking OSHA exemption for farms

By Jim Morris and Howard Berkes

Dangerous disease, dangerous remedy

By Jillian Olsen

Dangerous disease, dangerous remedy

By Jillian Olsen

On the night of September 10, low-flying planes blanketed parts of Nassau County, New York, in a fine mist of Scourge, a mosquito-killing pe

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Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape

By Ronnie Greene

World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

Europe’s new pesticide regulations leave America in the dust

By Jillian Olsen

In health, like everything else, men and women really are different

By Amy Biegelsen

Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape

By Ronnie Greene

Pesticides endanger farmworkers, but thin layers of government protect them and no one knows the full scope of the perils in the fields.

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Dangerous disease, dangerous remedy

By Jillian Olsen

World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

Europe’s new pesticide regulations leave America in the dust

By Jillian Olsen

EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

Excerpts from this story referencing "Syngenta":

"… t had been used: Switch 62.5WG, a fungicide made by the Swiss conglomerate Syngenta that kills diseases on crops ranging from blackberries to turnip greens.Bu …"