Source: Madelyn Beck, HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA, 8/3/18


Pesticides are all over, from backyard gardens to cornfields. While their use doesn’t appear to be slowing, concern over drift and the resulting effects on health is driving research — and more worries. Those concerns are bringing pesticides to a different venue: courtrooms.  There are the several lawsuits over dicamba, a pesticide that for a couple of years has been drifting into unwanted territory, killing crops like soybeans and pitting neighbor against neighbor. Another case in California alleges the pesticide Roundup (or glyphosate) causes cancer.   

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