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In 2015, the last year for which statistics are available, California’s growers applied more chlorpyrifos than farmers in any other state — mainly in the Central Valley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and California’s pesticide usage database
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In Todd Miller’s prescient new book, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, the Tucson journalist and author travels the globe to document how climate disasters are uprooting people from their homes.
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Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world’s top-selling weed killer, Roundup, is a suspected carcinogen that’s used in agriculture, on golf courses, ballfields and other public venues, and for lawn care. It can be found in more than 750 products sold in the U.S.
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Gene Takle, director of Iowa State University’s climate science program told a Statehouse news conference that “absolute humidity” measured by dew-point temperature has increased statewide by 8 percent to 23 percent since 1971.
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Cleaning up the dead zones would lead to more productive fisheries, increased tourism, and higher property values—benefits that would total $22 billion per year, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest on record, measuring almost 8,800 square miles, about the size of New Jersey, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Local activists gathered outside a Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop in Uptown Minneapolis on Thursday to protest the reported inclusion of weedkiller in the company's ice cream.
A recent New York Times report has claimed 10 out of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry's ice cream tested positive for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.
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Wisconsin environmental officials are over-regulating large livestock operations, imposing pollution requirements that are tougher than federal law and arbitrarily changing runoff standards without going through the rule-making process, a trade association says in a lawsuit.
The Dairy Business Association filed the lawsuit in Brown County on July 31. It alleges the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has changed requirements for concentrated animal feeding operations to treat runoff. The department last year stopped allowing farmers to move runoff through patches of vegetation
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Forbes recently named Costco to its list of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies most loved by liberals. And yet, despite this commitment to social responsibility, Costco is about to venture into vertical integration and contract farming—a system that is the antithesis of fair. Why? Because Costco sells a lot of rotisserie chickens.
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Montana has become the 43rd state to legalize raw milk distribution, doing so through a method that no other state has adopted. Montana residents can now get legal access to raw milk through purchasing securities, giving them ownership interest in a dairy animal or dairy animals.
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