Some farmers are reducing the need for herbicides like atrazine by switching to organic production methods or adopting new weed management strategies. Most federal farm spending supports and encourages large-scale industrial farming, dependent on chemical pesticides and fertilizers that pollute streams, rivers and lakes.
Of the meager support for more sustainable farming, even less is dedicated to practices that reduce the need for pesticides. As a result, most farmers seeking financial help to reduce chemical use are turned away. The U. EPA is currently reviewing the regulations on atrazine and should release its assessment in the next year. To protect public health and ensure clean drinking water, the agency should recognize the harm caused by atrazine and restrict its use. Glyphosate Found in Popular Breakfast Foods.
About Contact Us. Learn more Got It. Most recent. Solar Energy. Even though countries in the European Union do not use atrazine, the product received a favorable safety review there:.
In fact, the EU had recommended a health-based drinking water standard for atrazine that was times higher than the 0.
This website is focused primarily on atrazine-specific legal matters. The atrazine water district lawsuit s were settled in and this site remains active to provide any related litigation updates. In , the EPA announced a plan to analyze the impacts of atrazine and glyphosate — the two most commonly used pesticides in the United States — on 1, endangered plants and animals in the United States under the terms of a settlement reached with the Center.
This led to the landmark risk assessment that showed that amount of the herbicide atrazine that's released into the environment in the United States is likely harming most species of plants and animals. Also in , under the terms of a historic settlement reached with the Center, U. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a plan to analyze the impacts of atrazine and glyphosate on 1, endangered U. We've also worked to gain protection under state and federal endangered species laws for wildlife that is particularly threatened by atrazine.
We filed a scientific petition to list Southeast aquatic, riparian and wetland species as threatened or endangered in In we made the biggest-ever move to protect amphibians and reptiles in the United States, filing a mega-petition requesting Endangered Species Action protection for 53 amphibians and reptiles in 45 states.
The Center has also sought protection for individual species harmed by atrazine, including Townsend's big-eared bats and boreal toads.
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