02/August/22

 

Use of dicamba weedkiller has devastated crops it wasn’t even sprayed on. Under certain conditions the chemical has the ability to drift miles from where it’s sprayed [GMW: on GM dicamba-tolerant crops], creating massive problems on farms from coast to coast. While farmers who use it say it’s vital to their livelihoods, complaints about dicamba damage continue stacking up nationwide, and there’s growing concern about the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to continually re-approve the product. Farmer Jeff Flamm says dicamba damage has cost him at least $1 million just in lost apple production. InvestigateTV requested complaints files from 18 states; while some were forthcoming, others were secretive or put up big barriers to transparency. Fox8Live

 

 

A Texas lab said it assumes responsibility for entering into “poorly drafted” agreements with three Chinese maximum bio-containment labs that granted them broad authority to delete so-called “secret files", including research data stored on US servers. In a new statement to US Right to Know, the University of Texas Medical Branch acknowledged that data destruction provisions in its contracts with three Chinese labs — including the Wuhan Institute of Virology — may have violated Texas state law. US Right to Know

 

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