John Durnell just wanted to make things around his St. Louis neighborhood look a little nicer. So, on occasion, he’d spray a bit of Roundup in the obvious places — along weedy sidewalks and in public spaces he thought needed a little extra attention. Decades later, after multiple rounds of chemotherapy, Durnell is recovering from blood cancer that a Missouri jury found in 2023 was caused by…
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Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. That’s 33.5 million children — 46 percent of the country’s kids — living in areas with failing grades for at least one measure of air pollution that is particularly harmful to developing lungs. The report also found that…
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On March 31, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will convene a rare meeting of the Endangered Species Committee. Sometimes referred to as the “God Squad,” the panel could effectively roll back existing environmental protections by exempting companies from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), paving the way for oil and gas projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is failing to put warnings on pesticides linked to cancer — even when the agency itself determined a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic, according to two new analyses of federal data. The EPA has put cancer warnings on 1.4% — 69 of 4,919 — of pesticide labels for products that contain an active ingredient that the agency itself has designated…
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A new analysis links high use of the weed killer glyphosate to elevated rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), particularly in the Midwest, reinforcing years of research linking cancer to the weed killer made popular by Monsanto. The analysis by Food & Water Watch (FWW), a nonprofit public health advocacy group, looked at counties that spray the highest amounts of glyphosate herbicides in the…
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Top U.S. regulators met with Bayer’s CEO last year to discuss “litigation” issues — including “Supreme Court Action” over its glyphosate weed killer — just months before the Trump administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer’s case at the high court, internal government records show. The June 17 meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer CEO Bill…
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