Atrazine Expert on MPR's Midmorning Oct. 10
by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship ProjectTyrone Hayes, the Berkeley researcher whose atrazine research made him persona non grata at an MPCA meeting a few years ago, will be on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning program (91.1 FM in the Twin Cities) Wednesday, Oct. 10, beginning at 10:06 a.m. The interview should be a good warm-up for the Senate hearing at 1 p.m. that day on pesticides and attempts by government and corporations to intimidate scientists who study the environmental impacts of agrichemicals. A recent article on the Twin Cities Daily Planet website provides nice background on how pesticide research conducted by former MPCA hydrologist Paul Wotzka led to his current role as government whistleblower.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
[...] The pesticide Atrazine is going to be the topic of the day, and no amount of pressure from the Farm Bureua, the Department of Agriculture, or the MPCA can stave off the conversation. Culminating in a fundraiser for Paul Wotzka on the evening of the 10th, UC Berkley Professor Tyrone Hayes will be making the rounds on MPR and at the state legislature. Brian from Loon Commons has details. Tyrone Hayes, the Berkeley researcher whose atrazine research made him persona non grata at an MPCA meeting a few years ago, will be on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning program (91.1 FM in the Twin Cities) Wednesday, Oct. 10, beginning at 10:06 a.m. The interview should be a good warm-up for the Senate hearing at 1 p.m. that day on pesticides and attempts by government and corporations to intimidate scientists who study the environmental impacts of agrichemicals. A recent article on the Twin Cities Daily Planet website provides nice background on how pesticide research conducted by former MPCA hydrologist Paul Wotzka led to his current role as government whistleblower. [...]
October 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] Twenty-one of the wells contained at least one pesticide or pesticide breakdown product, mostly at levels too low to be considered a health risk by the government. (Respected scientists like Tyrone Hayes may disagree that even low levels are “safe.”) To no one’s surprise, the ever popular corn herbicide atrazine was the most common pesticide contaminant, showing up in 17 wells. If it can be found in the Boundary Waters, why not in farm wells? [...]