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Frog Sex-Change Claims Flawed Says Center for Global Food Issues
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American farmers have successfully used atrazine to increase crop
yields while using less land and fewer resources, such as fossil
fuel. Herbicides such as atrazine allow farmers to use no-tillage
weed control methods, which reduce soil erosion by 65-95 percent. No-
till methods, using selective herbicides such as atrazine for weed
control rather than mechanical methods, have prevented the erosion of
untold billions of tons of topsoil and significantly improved the
water quality in our nations rivers and streams. These methods
enhance the sustainability of our farms and have been endorsed by ...
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Herbicide's risks and rewards leach into politics; Atrazine, a widely used weedkiller for the state's corn, has become an environmental and legislative hot potato.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...Staff Writer For many corn farmers, atrazine is life-giving, a guarantee that their...permits. For some environmentalists, atrazine is life-deforming, a risk to wildlife...years after farmers first began spraying atrazine on their fields, the widely used herbicide...
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EPA okays continued use of atrazine. (Pesticides).
Magazine article from: Chemical Week
; EPA says it has concluded that atrazine, the second most widely used herbicide...court-ordered deadline to complete the review of atrazine's effects on human health and the environment...Washington). The potential effect of atrazine on frogs will be addressed by the National...
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EPA is hit with a lawsuit over Atrazine.(News)
Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter
; ...endangered wildlife from the herbicide atrazine. The group alleges that the EPA is permitting the widespread use of atrazine even though the agency acknowledges...the country are so contaminated with atrazine that sea turtles and other endangered...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Activists seek atrazine ban; Pesticide: Group claims the chemical has been linked to cancer and deformities in frogs
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...the government Monday to ban the use of atrazine, a weedkiller commonly sprayed on cornfields...been drafting new rules for the use of atrazine, one of the nation's most widely used...rules permit up to 3 parts per billion of atrazine in drinking water. The resources council...
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Group seeks EPA ban on weedkiller atrazine
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; Group seeks EPA ban on weedkiller atrazine WASHINGTON -- An environmental group asked the government Monday to ban the use of atrazine, a weedkiller commonly sprayed on cornfields...been drafting new rules forthe use of atrazine, one of the nation's most widely used...
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Effect of Surfactants at Low Concentrations on the Sorption of Atrazine by Natural Sediment
Magazine article from: Water Environment Research
; ...low concentrations on the sorption of atrazine by natural sediments. With surfactant...appreciably reduce the adsorption of atrazine, while nonionic surfactant decreases the adsorption of atrazine at concentrations equal to or less than...
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 "Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois)")
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Atrazine controversy continues.
Newspaper article from: Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois)
; ...headlines more than weeds these days. Atrazine, produced by Swiss-based agribusiness...studies. Heavily used in the Midwest, atrazine has been found at high levels in well...than 3 parts per billion. identifying atrazine as not likely to cause cancer in humans...
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Industry Influence and Atrazine Carcinogenicity/In reply
Magazine article from: International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
; ...common misconceptions about the herbicide atrazine that have been repeatedly mentioned in...most egregious are: Huff states that atrazine may cause cancer. This is not true. Both...Advisory Panel (SAP) concluded in 2000 that atrazine is "not likely to be carcinogenic" in...
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Kermit to Kermette? Does the Herbicide Atrazine Feminize Male Frogs?
Magazine article from: Journal of College Science Teaching
; ...University of California at Berkeley, to investigate atrazine's safety. Professor Hayes began his investigation...areas of the Midwest. Some of these areas used atrazine extensively, whereas others reported little...water samples that contained a wide range of atrazine concentrations, until they ...
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European Union Bans Atrazine, While the United States Negotiates Continued Use
Magazine article from: International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
; Atrazine is a common agricultural herbicide with endocrine disruptor...same month the European Union (EU) announced a ban of atrazine because of ubiquitous and unpreventable water contamination...government documents, and report efforts by the manufacturer of atrazine, Syngenta, to influence the U.S. ...
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