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What is a Carcinogen.
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What is a Carcinogen.
Conservation and public health groups filed a formal notice with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin today to force the
Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:
Conservation and public health groups filed a formal notice with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin today to force the agency to develop water-quality standards for atrazine, a cancer-linked pesticide that has been found at dangerous levels in thousands of U.S. waterways and in drinking-water supplies.
The notice comes ten days after the Trump U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its finalized review of atrazine, concluding that the potent endocrine disruptor does not pose an extinction risk to any threatened or endangered animals or plants. This contrasts sharply with the EPA’s 2021 finding that widespread atrazine pollution is harming more than 1,000 threatened and endangered species.
“The Trump administration has failed to do anything to adequately protect our families and most endangered wildlife from the dangers of cancer-linked and hormone-disrupting pesticides, like atrazine,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s appalling that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world in banning this inherently dangerous pesticide.”
The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to develop water-quality criteria for pollutants, such as atrazine. The agency initiated that step in 1999 but never completed that requirement. The legal notice filed today by the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network is required before any future lawsuit.
Atrazine pollution is caused by tens of millions of pounds of the pesticide being used each year by industrial agricultural operations in the United States.
The pesticide is banned as too dangerous in more than 60 countries but is the second most widely used pesticide in the United States. It is linked to birth defects, multiple cancers, and fertility problems like low sperm quality and irregular menstrual cycles.
In 2025 the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found that atrazine is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Unlike the EPA, which relies heavily on confidential research by pesticide companies of their own products, the WHO’s scientists only include in their assessments the findings of pesticide safety studies that can be reviewed by independent scientists for validity and bias.
Invasion from Eerie Magazine No. 75
by Jose Bea
After Promising to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ Trump Mandates Production of Cancer-Causing Glyphosate
On February 18, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) invoking the Defense Production Act, historically used to spur production of supplies needed for national security, to guarantee the supply of glyphosate-based herbicides, claiming a lack of such weedkillers would “critically jeopardize agricultural productivity, adding pressure to the domestic food system.” The EO also gives Bayer-Monsanto immunity from future cancer lawsuits. Ken Cook, president of EWG, which supported some aspects of the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, said he couldn’t “envision a bigger middle finger to every MAHA mom than this.
Farmers call for urgent review of new glyphosate cancer research
Dutch farmers’ organisation LTO has called for a rapid assessment of new international research that links the use of glyphosate weedkiller to cancer in rats. The study, carried out by European and US scientists, exposed 1,000 rats to varying doses of glyphosate over several years. Researchers found that some of the animals developed leukaemia or other forms of cancer, while no cases were recorded in a control group. The results have been described as “groundbreaking and alarming” by Dutch scientists not involved in the study. -If the findings are confirmed, the LTO said the product’s approval “must be withdrawn immediately”, Trouw quoted the organisation as saying. Glyphosate is widely used by Dutch farmers in both the food and flower industry. The LTO said it was essential that national and European safety bodies, including the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Dutch board for the authorisation of plant protection products and biocides (CTGB), evaluate the study “as a top priority”.
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The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) told us in 2015 it was a probable carcinogen. Farmers shouldn't be surprised.
(The link to the research is not behind a paywall, for once.)
Ultimate Word Tournament!
Season 2
Round 1
carcinogen
tonsi
carcinogen (English) /kɑɹˈsɪnəd͡ʒən/ a substance or agent that causes cancer.
tonsi (toki pona)
/tonsi/ 1. non-binary, gender non-conforming 2. trans, non-cisgender
A lyrical genius 🥰🥰🥰🥰😆 ( @kevmania you should listen to this)
(And this, also could you find these and burn them? PRETTY PLEASE, BEGGING ON MY HANDS AND KNEES)
Working on the back of the vest. I love my new Carcinogen patch.
Trying my best 🥲