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"Downwind: Big Ag at Your Door" [1]

Residents of Oregon's Triangle Lake area complain that aerial spraying of herbicides, which drift onto adjacent properties, is causing harm to their health and plants. The herbicides involved are atrazine and 2,4-D. For years, state regulators dismissed the complaints, but now neighbors have banded together and hired labs to do their own testing. "The results are startling enough that federal and state officials have descended on the area and are running another set of urinalysis tests, while the farmers have organized themselves into a movement they are calling the 'Pitchfork Rebellion.'"

Clare Howard reports for 100 Reporters February 14, 2012.
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Source: 100 Reporters [2], 02/15/2012
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/downwind-big-ag-your-door [2] http://100r.org/2012/02/downwind/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81