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Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine

Beau Hodai, Lisa Graves, PR Watch. February 7, 2012.

A new investigation shows the global chemical company spent millions spinning news coverage and tracking journalists as concern grew over potential health risks of atrazine.

Is Weed Killer in Drinking Water Dangerous? Govt. Is Letting the Chemical Industry Come Up with the Answer

Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. July 14, 2010.

EPA officials claim chemical industry's own evidence is 'scientifically more robust' than independent research.

Why Do We Treat Our Seas, Lakes and Rivers Like Sewers?

Kerry Trueman, Green Fork Blog. March 11, 2010.

Nobody wants to wallow in somebody else's waste -- or our own, for that matter. So why do we continue to use our valuable freshwater resources as a dumping ground?

Why Commonly Used Pesticides May Be To Blame for the Deaths of So Many Members of My Farming Family

Sandra Zellmer, Center for Progressive Reform. January 14, 2010.

We need to delve deeply into the potential link between a widely used chemical and the health of our food producers and their communities.

Every Story About Chemicals in Drinking Water Is a Gift to the Bottled Water Industry

Elizabeth Royte, AlterNet. August 26, 2009.

Instead, we must fix our municipal systems and, most important of all, better protect our watersheds from chemical and other pollution.