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02/26/2017 / By Daniel Barker

EPA manufactures “fake facts” to whitewash extreme health hazards of biosolids; new documentary “Biosludged” to expose the truth

For more than two decades, the EPA has managed to cover up the deadly truth about biosolids, but with the release of “Biosludged” – a documentary exposing the hazards of using treated sewage as fertilizer and the EPA’s tactics of silencing anyone who attempts to get the truth to the public – the agency will […]

01/23/2017 / By Daniel Barker

EPA acknowledges deadly effects of pesticides on bees, but refuses to restrict their use

In a disconnect of mammoth proportions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just acknowledged the threat to bee populations posed by neonicotinoid pesticides, while simultaneously reversing its position regarding a proposal to limit their use. On January 12, the EPA admitted for the first time that three commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides – clothianidin, thiamethoxam […]

01/10/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Water crisis: Obama’s EPA to approve dramatic increase in limits on radiation exposure allowable in public drinking water

As one of its closing acts before leaving the stage, the Obama administration plans to relax EPA guidelines regarding maximum allowable radiation levels in the nation’s drinking water, increasing them to levels thousands of times above current legal limits. A federal lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led to the release of […]

12/26/2016 / By Daniel Barker

Washington state suing Monsanto over toxic pollution from PCBs

The state of Washington has joined the list of those who have filed lawsuits against Monsanto over lingering environmental pollution caused by PCBs – a group of now-banned and highly toxic chemicals that the company manufactured between 1935 and 1977. Several West Coast cities, including San Diego, Portland and at least half a dozen others, […]

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