News & Articles By Vicki Batts
10/13/2017 / By Vicki Batts
The EU is watching the Monsanto lawsuits closely; re-licensing of glyphosate sparking bitter debate
It looks like the European Union could be on its way to saying goodbye to Monsanto’s most popular (and toxic) herbicide. Glyphosate, the star ingredient in Monsanto’s infamous Roundup, has been heavily scrutinized for its potential hazards and now, a bitter debate over re-licensing the noxious herbicide is brewing across the pond. Over the summer, […]
08/18/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Even TINY traces of pesticides found to cause infertility in insects, scientists discover
How much of a pesticide do you think it takes to cause harm? For insects, the amount to cause harm is even smaller than scientists could have ever hoped to imagine. New research has highlighted just how dangerous chemical pesticides really are, yet for some reason these literal poisons continue to sit on store shelves […]
05/19/2017 / By Vicki Batts
“Environmentalists” have been fooled: The very molecule they’ve declared war on is the same molecule necessary to re-green the entire planet
Carbon dioxide has been vilified as the harbinger of climate change for years now, but it seems that this belief may have been misguided. Indeed, carbon dioxide may be what saves the planet as opposed to what destroys it. The media has done a brilliant job of putting carbon dioxide (CO2) at the forefront of […]
03/30/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Shocking letter from dead EPA scientist reveals EPA bureacrats being bribed by Monsanto to hide scientific evidence of glyphosate causing cancer
The Environmental Protection Agency has been involved in a number of controversies over the years, such as the Gold King Mine spill or their silence on the use of fracking wastewater on farmland. Now, the federal agency is under fire for their collusion with one of the world’s most evil companies: Monsanto. Monsanto has become infamous […]
03/30/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Is Monsanto responsible for a 90 percent drop in the bumblebee population?
The rusty patched bumblebee was, at one time, an ordinary bee with a substantial population across the US. But the once-common bee has fallen prey to human action, and the number of these little pollinators has declined drastically. Over the last two decades, the rusty patched bumblebee population has declined by a staggering 90 percent, […]
03/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts
56 percent of Maryland’s bees disappeared in 2016 as pollinator collapse accelerates
The decimation of bee populations is a national concern, but beekeepers in the state of Maryland have been hit especially hard by the wave of bee deaths. In 2016 alone, beekeepers in the mid-Atlantic state faced a devastating loss equating to more than 56 percent of their bee colonies, according to the Bee Informed Partnership […]
02/17/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Toxic human sewage and industrial waste routinely spread onto farm fields under insane EPA rule
Would you eat food grown in soil that had been fertilized with human feces? There’s a good chance that you already have, and you probably didn’t even know it. Under the EPA’s controversial 503 rule, human waste has been approved for so-called land application, provided it has undergone treatment that supposedly transforms sewage sludge into […]
02/10/2017 / By Vicki Batts
EPA whistleblower fired for telling the truth about geoengineering
A former scientist from the US Environmental Protection Agency is now reportedly working with Geoengineeringwatch.org, after being fired by the federal agency for raising concerns about a major threat to public health, namely, geoengineering. In a statement authored for Geoengineering Watch, Davis writes that he was employed by the EPA for 16 years, and worked […]
01/20/2017 / By Vicki Batts
Investigations begin over EPA’s failure to regulate factory farm pollution for over a decade
At the end of November, it was announced that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General would finally be examining the agency’s lack of regulation and failure to oversee large livestock operations. Several environmental groups are also planning on filing suit. For the last decade, factory farming endeavors have basically been given a pass when it […]
12/26/2016 / By Vicki Batts
New EPA head appointed by Trump may finally begin dismantling the EPA’s overbearing, totalitarian ‘authority’
Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy, but his latest choice has been sending heads a-spinning. Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to take charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt has not minced words when it comes to his feelings about Obama’s EPA, choosing instead to voice his criticisms openly, and has […]
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