Increased yields, decreased producer costs and environmental benefits from atrazine and other triazine herbicides was estimated to be up to $4.8 billion per year, according to studies released by a panel of experts in Kansas City on November 9.
In early May, ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers sat down with Kerry Kriger the founder of Save the Frogs. He showed them a petition to ban atrazine and an 82-slide presentation, made up mostly of excellent photographs of frogs. The presentation has a slide on the use of corn and made claims [Continue Reading ...]
Relying on data from the Agricultural Health Study, federal government researchers have found no association between atrazine use and cancer overall among pesticide applicators. Read more here.
A Yale University study that contradicts what many anti-atrazine activists have been saying for years. Atrazine is not to blame for frog abnormalities. Read more here.
Rep. Frank Lucas spoke on the impact of regulation on agriculture, including the re-re-evaluation of atrazine. Read the full text of his statement.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that existing rules for the weed-killer atrazine are adequate to protect the environment and public health. Read more here.
Berkeley anti-atrazine research Tyrone Hayes was featured in today’s issue of The Daily Californian, the independent newspaper of the University of California-Berkeley. The article outlines Hayes’ research that claims atrazine in extremely small amounts, sterilizes and feminizes male frogs.
Atrazine may not need to be regulated any differently than it is now. Recent studies continue to reaffirm EPA’s original decision in 2006 to reregister atrazine, says Tim Pastoor, principal scientist, Syngenta. Pastoor spoke after a Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) met with the EPA in September to reevaluate the non-cancer effects of the popular corn [Continue Reading ...]
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Study: Atrazine use supports thousands of jobs
A University of Chicago professor estimates as many as 48,000 jobs would be lost if atrazine is ever banned. Read the full report here,or read a transcript of the July 7th media event here.
Atrazine: NOT Banned in the E.U.
We’ve known it all along, and now you know it too: atrazine is not banned in the European Union. Find out more.
Atrazine: 'Son of Alar': The New Pesticide Scare Campaign
Atrazine is a valuable weed-killer used to protect corn, sugar cane, and other crops. The EPA has estimated that farming without atrazine would cost corn farmers $28 an acre... Find out more.
Atrazine can help the environment?
Farmers need atrazine to use environmentally-friendly farming practices like conservation tillage. Find out more.
Atrazine and Frogs
What’s the real story about atrazine research? Can we believe the research results from scientists with a cause? Find out more.
What do the regulators say?
What has EPA and international regulatory agencies said about atrazine? The answer might surprise you. Find out more.
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Comments submitted to the EPA Docket on Proposed Atrazine Ban
The deadline has passed for submitting comments to EPA on a “Save the Frogs!” petition to ban atrazine. EPA had posted the petition for public comment, consistent with its goal to be open and transparent in scientific and regulatory processes. However, none of the information in the Save the Frogs petition justifies a change in [Continue Reading ...]