(Beyond Pesticides, November 10, 2025) With a small but growing organic beer market, Beyond Pesticides is urging breweries to align with ecological farming practices and is seek out organic sources fo...

There is little dispute that modern industrial culture has produced a constellation of related chronic conditions contributing powerfully to human disease. In recent decades, attention has begun to fo...

A new report unpacks the supply chain of the infamous herbicide paraquat and underscores the true costs of pesticide products.

Environmental health advocates and farmers are raising a glass to the expansion of hop production to help boost the viability of organic-certified products.

Earthworm exposure to a mixture of the weed killer glyphosate and urea, used in synthetic fertilizers, experience enhanced, species-specific toxicity.

(Beyond Pesticides, November 3, 2025) After a series of legal setbacks for the nation’s cornerstone law of environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Beyond Pesticides has joined a call for members of the U.S. Congress to oppose weakening amendments to the statute—H.R. 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. Environmental advocates say the bill, introduced by U.S. Representatives Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and Jared Golden (D-ME) in July 2025, is a fossil fuel and agriculture industry wish list that will weaken NEPA...

📣 Tell your U.S. Representative to #voteNO on the SPEED Act and save the National Environmental Policy Act. #TakeAction #NEPA

A review in Lancet Neurology provides a clear snapshot of the state of scientific understanding of Parkinson’s disease and how medicine and policy could be improved by shifting focus to the primary causes of the disease, namely environmental toxicants, and to emphasize prevention rather than devoting resources only to treatments and a cure.

A biomonitoring study of preschoolers reveals that exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals is linked to hyperactive behavior.

The latest research on bats and beavers, ecosystem services, and biodiversity adds to a wide body of science on the importance of a balanced ecosystem. In both the Bulletin of the National Research Centre and Journal of Animal Ecology, the researchers highlight the interconnectedness not only between wildlife species but to broader ecosystem functioning and human health implications. Researchers in the Journal article add to the growing body of science connecting an abundance of bat species in areas with established beaver dams, highlighting how interconnected wildlife is. The reporting on...

A study finds that 7.5% of all pregnant people in California (2021) lived within 1 kilometer of agricultural fields with organophosphate pesticide use.

With the confluence of science and law, the spotlight is on sewage sludge fertilizer and its contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Sewage sludge (biosolids) is a byproduc...

📣 Tell your Governor and local officials to ban the use of biosolids on farms and parks, until there is adequate testing of toxic residues—which does not currently exist. #TakeAction

A literature review reports peer-reviewed studies associating prenatal and childhood pesticide exposure to measurable alterations to their immune systems.

Water contaminated with pesticides threatens aquatic ecosystem functioning and biodiversity, as highlighted by a study of seaweed.

(Beyond Pesticides, October 22, 2025) The release of scientific studies on contaminants in sewage sludge (biosolids) used as fertilizers coincides with two lawsuits filed by Beyond Pesticides against ScottsMiracle-Gro and GreenTechnologies, LLC, in which Beyond Pesticides alleged that each defendant engaged in false and deceptive marketing and sale of fertilizer products that were marketed as environmentally friendly, despite containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”). PFAS have been linked to cancer and other adverse effects. (See settlement statement recently reached with...

>> Announcing the 42nd National Forum Series launch on Oct 29, featuring Danilo Russo, PhD, Jo Ann Baumgartner from Wild Farm Alliance, author and farmscape expert Sam Earnshaw, and Tony Able, chair o...

Adding to a wide body of science, a study on dietary pesticide residues highlights threats to health and current regulatory deficiencies.

(Beyond Pesticides, October 20, 2025) With the release of a study that links the use of nitrogen fertilizer in combination with antibiotic pesticides to escalating bacterial resistance, public health advocates are renewing their call for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Congress to eliminate antibiotic pesticide use in land management. This action comes on the heels of a World Health Organization (WHO) study finding that antibiotic resistance is evolving even faster than previously thought. WHO finds, “One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing...

📣 EPA must not register pesticides unless they have been demonstrated not to contribute to antibiotic resistance and must cancel the registration of those that do.

Earlier this week, on October 13, the fossil fuel industry, commodity crop groups, and their political allies celebrated Global Fertilizer Day: the widespread (and growing) use of petroleum products, including synthetic, nitrogen-based and fossil-fuel derived fertilizers. As a response to industry claims that petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers are critical to ensuring global food security, Beyond Pesticides and a broad coalition are pushing back against toxic chemical dependency and advancing organic land (agricultural and nonagricultural) management as cost-effective, productive, and...

An important new study links pesticides, antibiotics, and nitrogen fertilizers to the extreme global crisis of antibiotic resistance, raising serious concerns about the adverse impacts of conventional...

The latest USGS report shows elevated risks for human health with higher pesticide contamination of groundwater in agricultural areas.