{"id":325831,"date":"2010-02-15T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:27:33","slug":"new-epa-scrutiny-for-commonly-used-herbicide-atrazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325831","title":{"rendered":"New EPA Scrutiny for Commonly-Used Herbicide Atrazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Atrazine.gif\" alt=\"Atrazine\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22246\" height=\"261\" width=\"166\" \/>Jim Morris and M.B. Pell write on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/blog\/entry\/1934\/\">Center for Public Integrity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After years of fielding complaints about the ubiquitous weed-killer and water pollutant atrazine, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to take a closer look at the product, used on corn and other crops, mainly in the Midwest. Some of those complaints are documented in a database produced by the Center in 2008 as part as of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/investigations\/pesticides\/\">perils of the New Pesticides<\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/scipoly\/sap\/meetings\/2010\/020210meeting.html#agenda\">EPA advisory panel<\/a> began assessing the latest science on the chemical, frequently found in surface waters and groundwater, and two more meetings of the advisory group are planned for later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Perils of the New Pesticides project includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/investigations\/pesticides\/pages\/introduction\/\">tool<\/a> that allows the public to search 15 years of previously undisclosed EPA data for reported environmental&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Morris and M.B. Pell write on the Center for Public Integrity: After years of fielding complaints about the ubiquitous weed-killer and water pollutant atrazine, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to take a closer look at the product, used on corn and other crops, mainly in the Midwest. Some of those complaints are documented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}