May 2019

Court Docs: Monsanto Paid Chemical Industry Front Group to Claim Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’ and Attack Its Critics

“Emails between Monsanto and the American Council on Science and Health, or ACSH, and related internal Monsanto emails were first made public during the trial last July of a lawsuit by a former California school groundskeeper who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using Roundup. The jury awarded Dewayne “Lee” Johnson $289 million in punitive …

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Pesticides explained: the toxic chemicals in up to 70% of produce

The US continues to use several pesticides banned in the EU or other countries, including atrazine, glyphosate, 1,3-D, paraquat and neonicotinoids. All have been linked to serious health or environmental consequences. For example, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles found exposure to paraquat and two other pesticides increased the risk for Parkinson’s disease …

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CAFF & Farmers Guild Join us on Tuesday July 2nd for a special Farmers Guild gathering on staying healthy, preserving your sanity and avoiding burnout

NORTH BAY Summer: the daylight hours stretch out longer and longer and yet still there’s never enough of them. The season brings abundance but it can also bring burnout. As advocates of sustainable agriculture, we know there’s nothing sustainable about farmers burning out. That’s why we’re offering up resources and opportunities to help keep your cool while …

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Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia | US news | The Guardian

Time for a water tax on exporetsd from water scarce areas? “There are a lot of exporters here,” Jim said of US farmers and farm operations selling their crops to overseas markets. “They have been exporting from here for 30 or 40 years. I don’t see how this farm is any different.” “The Saudis, they’re …

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BUSTED: Oil execs recorded boasting about ‘unprecedented access’ to Trump during Ritz-Carlton luncheon

“We know him very well, and we have direct access to him, have conversations with him about issues ranging from federal land access to endangered species, to a lot of issues,” Dan Naantz, political director of the IPAA, told the room of 100 executives at the Laguna Niguel Ritz-Carlton event. “Williams noted that the conference attendees …

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‘Devastating’ Arctic warming of 9-16°F now ‘locked in,’ UN researchers warn

“As the report explains, warming in the Arctic is occurring at least twice as fast as warming across the planet as a whole, thanks to Arctic amplification. One reason for this amplification is that  when highly reflective snow and ice melts due to higher temperatures, it is replaced by the dark blue sea or darker …

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