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05/17/2018 / By Vicki Batts

An appeals court says CA can list the herbicide glyphosate as a carcinogen

After much fanfare, a state appeals court has ruled that California can list glyphosate as a carcinogen — and that the state’s ban on discharging the herbicide into public waterways stands, too. Despite Monsanto’s best efforts to keep the toxicity of their product under wraps, the ruling in California is undoubtedly a small victory for […]

03/12/2018 / By Ethan Huff

California to start recycling sewer water into tap water… and yes, it’s full of insane chemicals

Water has apparently become so scarce in the Golden State that some municipalities are about to begin piping recycled sewer water back into people’s homes, new reports indicate. The California State Water Resources Control Board recently announced new regulations that will allow treated wastewater to be reused as drinking water, though it won’t make up […]

11/15/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

California just banned pesticide use near public schools to protect children from brain damaging agricultural chemicals

Many parents are breathing a sigh of relief as California has now taken a definitive step in protecting their children from pesticides. Farmers will no longer be allowed to use certain pesticides in areas near schools and daycares thanks to new rules that were announced this week. The rules, which regulators have described as being […]

10/24/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Lead in L.A.: Toxic fumes from chemical leaks making thousands of families sick, state can’t afford cleanup

More than 10,000 families who live near an old battery plant near Los Angeles, California have been exposed to toxic fumes due to chemical leaks, according to a Daily Mail report. Exide Technologies, an old battery-recycling plant in Vernon, closed down in 2015 after reports stated that dozens of residents living near the area were […]

10/10/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Monsanto continues to look for a way around California’s labeling of glyphosate as a probable carcinogen … but there is NO “safe level” of exposure

In a press release that quickly created shock waves throughout the agricultural community, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced in March 2015 that the herbicide glyphosate – the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer – was “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Their conclusions were based on both human and […]

09/12/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Illegal pot farms now creating environmental DISASTER with massive runoff of banned pesticides

Poisonous chemicals from illegal marijuana farms in California’s forests were found in the state’s rivers and streams, according to a report by Reuters. This finding brought fear that humans and animals may be at risk because the contaminated rivers and creeks are the sources of the state’s water supply. Also, the streams are also crucial […]

07/17/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

California’s declaration means Neil deGrasse Tyson is now pushing a deadly herbicide POISON that kills people

California’s far-left government is running the once prosperous Golden State into the ground, but it showed some semblance of reason by declaring that glyphosate — the toxic chemical found in Monsanto’s prize weed killer, Roundup — is a chemical known to be cancer causing. Under the state’s Office of Environmental Hazard Assessment ruling, California retailers must include […]

05/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Mother of three contracts BOTULISM from disgusting gas station nacho cheese

When Lavinia Kelly stopped by Valley Oak Food & Fuel gas station, all she wanted was a nacho cheese-soaked serving of Doritos. Instead, she became one of at least five people to contract botulism from the convenience store’s savory condiment. According to HuffingtonPost.com, her quick trip to the deli area of the Walnut Grove gas […]

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