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(Beyond Pesticides, April 7, 2023) A petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implores the agency to halt the practice of allowing pesticides banned in the U.S. to be exported to ...
"While safety professionals in the private sector cannot replace the CSB, they must step up to ensure that its absence ...
Trump’s plan to scrap the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is unpopular with just about everyone — including ...
The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what ...
The interconnectedness of the pesticide and plastic problems was brought into focus recently with a scientific review of articles showing elevated pesticide hazards linked to plastic contamination. A ...
The call for preparedness particularly hits southeast Texas hard after Hurricane Harvey caused massive issues for the Arkema ...
image: Pesticide use creates potential hazard for non-target organisms. For bees in agricultural landscapes, pesticide risk results when their activity exposes them to this hazard (top left panel).
If human data for acute toxicity of pesticides was used for hazard classification and regulation worldwide, it would prevent many deaths and have a substantial impact on global suicide rates.
Hidden hazards in fruits and veggies. ... in the urine of 1,139 kids ages 8 to 15 and found that close to 95 percent had at least one of these chemical byproducts in their system.