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"Pesticide Police, Overwhelmed By Dicamba Complaints, Ask EPA For Help"

"Every summer for the past three years, the phones have been ringing like crazy in the Office of the Indiana State Chemist. Farmers and homeowners were calling, complaining that their soybean fields or tomato plants looked sick, with curled-up leaves. They suspected pesticides from nearby farms — a kind of chemical hit-and-run."

Source: NPR, 02/10/2020

"Fireflies Face Extinction Threats From Habitat Loss, Pesticides"

"Add fireflies to the list of insects in massive decline, often called the “insect apocalypse.” That was the broad upshot of a study released today in the publication BioScience. According to the report, firefly populations face a triple threat posed by rapid development, artificial-light pollution, and pesticides."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 02/04/2020

"Interior Official Broke Ethics Rules, Government Watchdog Concludes"

"A top Interior Department official broke a federal ethics rule by improperly meeting with his former employer, a conservative research organization, to discuss the rollback of endangered species protections that the group had been pushing, the department’s internal watchdog said in a report published Tuesday."

Source: NY Times, 12/11/2019

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