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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
I am pleased to be able to brief Congressional staff – both the House and Senate side – on the potential for adverse human health harms from neonicotinoid pesticides, or ‘neonics’. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Unfortunately, cancer-causing chemicals have their own lobby in Congress, the American Chemistry Council, ACC. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
EPA Official Once Tried to Kill It, But the Nearly-Dead ATSDR Report Returns to Haunt Monsanto and Bayer [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Ethylene Oxide—abbreviated as EO or EtO—is one of the hazardous industrial chemicals that the Cancer Lobby is vigorously defending. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
My colleague, Daniel Rosenberg and I both had the opportunity to present public comments on behalf of NRDC to the EPA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals ( [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Without much fanfare on this side of the Atlantic, the European Union is actively and effectively pushing back on one of the biggest bullies in the corporate sandbox, Monsanto. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Don’t want toxic rocket fuel in your drinking water? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
It's no secret that Scott Pruitt wants to undermine science at the Environmental Protection Agency. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
This spring EPA issued its Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision, PID (Relevant documents here, and in the EPA Docket [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
A recent update of a very large study of diseases of pesticide applicators identified a possible association between glyphosate use and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Federal lawmakers are done waiting for the Trump Administration to protect farmworkers and their families, our kids, and wildlife from chlorpyrifos, a dangerous nerve-toxic pesticide used on apples, peaches, and other [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
One of the many travesties in the failure to properly protect drinking water in the United States is EPA’s decades-long inability to set an enforceable drinking standard for perchlorate, a chemical that harms the thyroid – critical for normal growth and development – and that contaminates drinkin [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
The Trump EPA is trying to get some cover by holding a comment period and a few public hearings—listening sessions, where members of the public can register for up to five minutes of time to share an opinion or information with EPA—as it gives a wink and a nod to toxic fossil fuel polluters. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
I was very pleased to have the opportunity to testify in Congress to defend the reputation and integrity  of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer research arm of the W [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
New research in the prestigious medical journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) reports on the startling evidence that glyphosate – the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weed-killer, Roundup - is not only getting into our bodies, but has been doing so at increasing levels for decad [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
NRDC was very pleased to host the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on their recent trip to Washington DC. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
In early 2021 I was very pleased to join with two friends and colleagues, David Gee (Brunel University, London UK) and Dr. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
In response to EPA’s flawed assessment of Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), NRDC, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families (SCHF), Earthjustice and others worked together to submit to EPA extensive [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pesticide office continues to side with Monsanto’s interests to protect glyphosate-based herbicide products like Roundup. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Jennifer Sass
Neonicotinoid insecticides or “neonics”—the most widely class of insecticides worldwide—have long been linked to massive losses of bees and butterflies, despite [read post]