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August 25, 2009
From Farm Futures: The Natural Resources Defense Council has issued a report that drinking water containing the herbicide atrazine could pose a greater public health risk than previously thought because regular municipal monitoring doesn’t detect frequent spikes in the chemical’s levels. Scientists with Syngenta, the main manufacturer of atrazine, called the NRDC report alarmist and […]
June 18, 2009
From Peabody Gazette-Bulletin: Philip Barnes will speak Thursday night in Marion. He says the cities have some of the best source water in the region. Sedimentation and blue-green algae are greater concerns, Barnes, an associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering, says. Barnes thinks the cities’ class-action lawsuit against the maker of atrazine sends the […]
April 27, 2009
From USAgNet: Two out-of-state law firms are now saying that two Kansas grower groups are simply trying to protect the financial success of a Swiss chemical company after the corn and grain sorghum associations blew the whistle on an effort to sign up Kansas towns to join a lawsuit against the maker of atrazine. Nothing […]
April 22, 2009
From Peabody Gazette-Bulletin: In response to an open meetings and record complaint last week, the cities of Marion and Hillsboro have forwarded copies of documents to the Kansas Corn Growers and Kansas Grain Sorghum producers Associations supplied by a law firm asking them to join a groundwater contamination lawsuit against the manufacturer of the widely […]
