Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
William Sanjour* Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We have been “reforming” regulatory agencies over and over...
View ArticleThe Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday...
View ArticleHow EPA Faked the Entire Science of Sewage Sludge Safety: A Whistleblower’s...
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Obama’s Promise to Restore Scientific Integrity?
By Jonathan Latham, PhD Pretty much every branch of the US government has had trouble implementing President Obama’s flagship scientific integrity policy. In 2011, the US Department of the Interior...
View ArticleRuthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Morton Biskind, a physician from Westport, Connecticut, was a courageous man. At the peak of the cold war, in 1953, he complained of maladies afflicting both domestic animals...
View ArticleWhy the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
By Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that...
View Article“Poison Papers” Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With...
by Rebekah Wilce The world of independent chemical testing has a shiny veneer. The public is reassured that chemicals they’re exposed to on a daily basis are certified by technicians in spotless white...
View ArticleHave Monsanto and the Biotech Industry Turned Natural Bt Pesticides into GMO...
Is the supposed safety advantage of GMO crops over conventional chemical pesticides a mirage? According to biotech lore, the Bt pesticides introduced into many GMO food crops are natural proteins whose...
View ArticleDicamba Herbicide Drift: A Disaster in 2017, Will Be Much Worse in 2018
by Steve Smith, Chairman of Save Our Crops Coalition. On October 13th, an EPA press release announced the agency’s decision to allow the use of dicamba herbicides during the 2018 growing season for...
View ArticleHow the Once Tiny Waste Management Industry Captured EPA and Became VERY BIG
By William Sanjour In 1978 I was a branch chief in the newly created Hazardous Waste Management Division of EPA. I was charged with supervising the drafting of regulations to implement the hazardous...
View ArticleTear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
By Evaggelos Vallianatos When I entered the Office of Pesticide Programs of the US Environmental Protection Agency in May 1979, I knew practically nothing about pesticides. Though I had taken classes...
View ArticleThe 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
by Ronnie Cummins The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers....
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