Examiner.com Other possible motives could be against Syngenta themselves, a company who recently settled a $105 million class action lawsuit after its weed killer Atrazine leaked into the drinking supply of more than 52 million Americans. A 2010 study by biologists ... and more »
Post-Bulletin It's unlikely anything other than sorghum-sudan grass would survive in fields that have a full rate of atrazine applied this spring." Herbicide label restrictions limit options for what can be planted. "A herbicide label is a legal document," Hartzler ... and more »
Western Producer (subscription) They might also be cross-resistant to other Group 2 products. The annual pest has also developed Group 5 resistance in Ontario and the United States, where atrazine has been used extensively in corn production. Group 5 is less common in Western Canada, ...
Mother Earth News Although the lab results are a ways off, he says it would not surprise him to find atrazine in this stream, especially because the U.S. Department of Agriculture has found that runoff is 85 percent of the stream flow in this creek's watershed. The ...
Madison County Record Tillery sued manufacturers in federal court in 2010 on behalf of municipalities and water providers in six states, including Illinois, claiming atrazine had entered their water supplies and forced them to incur costs associated with testing, monitoring ... and more »
ChicagoNow (blog) An herbicide commonly used in the midwest called Atrazine causes similar birth defects to those to which she succumbed. The scary part? Not only is the substance legal (it's use has been banned in the EU for nearly a decade), its lobbyists are powerful.
