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How pesticides are harming soil ecosystems
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How pesticides are harming soil ecosystems

At a time when interest in regenerative agriculture is growing, a new study looks at the way pesticides can devastate soil species that foster plant health and sequester carbon.
Annie's Homegrown will eliminate ortho-phthalates

Portland group key to convincing General Mills to drop chemical from mac-and-cheese processing

Annie's Homegrown will eliminate ortho-phthalates, which make plastics more flexible but may also pose health risks, from its production equipment.
Opinion: Externalities are our existential threat
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Opinion: Externalities are our existential threat

It’s the “ex’s” we need to worry about the most. Externalities that create an existential threat. The ultimate threat: Our extinction.
Europe's Greens ready to be kingmakers in EU elections
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Europe's Greens ready to be kingmakers in EU elections

Green candidates, on course for their best showing, could play a big role in a divided parliament. This will be important for climate, plastics, toxification and especially endocrine disruption.

MEPs block Commission from widening endocrine disruptor definition.

MEPs today blocked a Commission proposal that would have exempted some chemicals from being identified as endocrine disruptors due to wider criteria.

MEPs block Commission from widening endocrine disruptor definition

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Undermining the rule of law at the EPA.

What good are laws without enforcement? Scott Pruitt wants to stop paying the Justice Department for hazardous waste litigation.

In the more than seven months since he became administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has been on a reckless mission to dismantle public health safeguards and environmental protections. Mr. Pruitt’s E.P.A. wants to postpone or roll back dozens of rules that save lives and provide clean air and water, including efforts by the Obama administration to combat climate change and to protect rivers and streams from pollution.

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Illinois' vanishing bugs and why it matters to Earth.
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Illinois' vanishing bugs and why it matters to Earth.

Endangered insects, a little-known part of the Endangered Species Act, prepare for life under Trump.

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