"G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms"
"The provision in the government funding bill could shield pesticide companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits."
Source: NYTimes, 09/16/2025
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MAHA Report Critics Say Corporate Pressure Wins Over Public Health
"A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices."
Source: The New Lede, 09/11/2025
House Bill Amending Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water in Iowa and US
"A bill drastically reducing the scope of the Clean Water Act passed through committee in the U.S. House and will likely reach the floor for debate later this month. The legislation would narrow the definition of bodies of water that qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act and would remove laws requiring permits before discharging pesticides or manure-contaminated stormwater from factory farms into waterways."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/10/2025
"EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS"
"Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides."
Source: Civil Eats, 09/09/2025
"The Unseen Harvest: Pesticides, Cancer And Rural Missouri’s Health Crisis"
"The counties with the highest use of pesticides per square mile are all located in Missouri’s Bootheel. Many of these counties have some of the state’s highest cancer rates and their health care options are dwindling."
Source: Investgate Midwest, 08/22/2025
"This Class Of Toxic Pesticides Is Now Prevalent In Michigan Waters"
"A commercially valuable but unpronounceable toxicant with multiple chemical variations is being increasingly found at harmful levels in Michigan waters. Sound familiar? It’s not PFAS or PCBs this time. Now, it’s neonicotinoids, or “neonics” — a type of synthetic pesticide that’s widely used on corn and soybeans."
Source: MLive, 08/20/2025
White House Draft Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations
"A highly anticipated White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a draft of the document that was reviewed by The New York Times."
Source: NYTimes, 08/19/2025
"'MAHA' Activists Urge Trump To Oppose Limits On Pesticide Regulation"
"President Donald Trump should block the U.S. House from limiting the regulation of pesticides and "forever chemicals" in its environmental appropriations bill or risk losing Republican support, more than 200 activists aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" movement said in a letter to Trump."
Source: Reuters, 08/13/2025
"White House Says MAHA Won't Restrict Pesticide Use"
"Trump administration officials say the White House has no plans to crack down on pesticides in farming, despite a report led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that called crop protection chemicals a danger to people’s health."
Source: Politico, 07/21/2025
Osprey Came Back From The Brink Once. Now Chicks Are Dying In Nests
"Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It’s a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns."
Source: AP, 07/15/2025
