The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing an October 1, 2026, deadline to reassess the safety of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller linked to serious health concerns.

With a major scientific 25-year-old landmark study relied upon to prove the safety of glyphosate recently retracted, it’s clear that the EPA must take immediate action to move up the reassessment date!

The facts should be alarming to us all: the key paper relied on by the EPA for glyphosate safety assessments was retracted due to serious ethical concerns and questions about the validity of the research findings. The study’s conclusions were based on unpublished data from Monsanto, and the authors did not disclose financial compensation they received from Monsanto for their work.

Bayer has paid out over $10 billion in 100,000 Roundup cancer cases, and faces massive liability from thousands of additional lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide (with glyphosate being the active ingredient) causes cancer, so it is no surprise that Bayer is seeking to avoid liability in ongoing lawsuits related to glyphosate exposure by including pursuing appeals, lobbying for legislation, and seeking U.S. Supreme Court intervention.

Due to mounting scientific evidence linking glyphosate to cancer and other severe health issues in humans and animals, and concerns about its impact on pollinators and ecosystems, we need to act now!

TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the EPA to prioritize public health and safety over industry interests by reopening the decision on glyphosate’s safety immediately and ban glyphosate to end the ongoing chemical assault on our land, water, and health!

Editor’s Note: Our people power is pushing back against Bayer! Activists like you in our OCA network alone sent more than 200,000 letters to Senators and Representatives, raising alarms about the dangers of glyphosate. Our collective efforts are having a major impact: Congress rejected a provision in 2026 appropriations bills that would have shielded the pesticide makers who are lobbying to make it harder for consumers to sue over pesticide risks to human health! Thank you, Carey Gillam, for all of your outstanding research and reporting on glyphosate over the years.

Carey Gillam, The New Lede:

“In a setback for the pesticide industry, Democrats have succeeded in removing a rider from a congressional appropriations bill that would have helped protect pesticide makers from being sued and could have hindered state efforts to warn about pesticide risks.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat from Maine and ranking member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, said Monday that the controversial measure pushed by the agrochemical giant Bayer and industry allies has been stripped from the 2026 funding bill.

The move is final, as Senate Republican leaders have agreed not to revisit the issue, Pingree said.

‘I just drew a line in the sand and said this cannot stay in the bill,’ Pingree said in an interview. ‘There has been intensive lobbying by Bayer. This has been quite a hard fight.’

The now-deleted language was part of a larger legislative effort that critics say is aimed at limiting litigation against pesticide industry leader Bayer, which sells the widely used Roundup herbicides.

An industry alliance set up by Bayer has been pushing for both state and federal laws that would make it harder for consumers to sue over pesticide risks to human health and has successfully passed such laws in two states so far.”
 


Bayer has “made this a high priority,” and we can expect to see continued efforts to get industry-friendly language inserted into legislation, including into the new Farm Bill

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Ban Roundup!

Kylie Foxx, Food Print:

“Vogue magazine recently described Alison Roman’s new pantry cookbook, ‘Something from Nothing,’ as the perfect guide for ‘money-strapped-millennials’ — but millennials aren’t the only ones feeling the pressure these days. As food prices have creeped ever upward and climate anxiety is at an all-time high, there’s never been a better time to root around your pantry or freezer and make something from nothing. 



Scrap soup, you ask? Also known as kitchen-scrap soup, stone soup or, less appetizingly, garbage soup, it’s a soul-warming, ever-adaptable dish that makes use of the leftover food bits you stash away in the freezer or fridge. But it’s also scrappy in another sense: It borrows from the kind of creative, roll-up-your-sleeves ethos employed by generations of budget-minded cooks, who had to stretch their ingredients to make do. In this time of uncertainty and scarcity, scrap soup can actually be an edible ode to abundance. 



By using every part of a vegetable (or chicken or fish or piece of cheese) you’re saving it from the landfill, where it will decompose and eventually produce methane, a greenhouse gas that’s up to 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Plus, soup is a forgiving canvas — you can throw a whole bunch of stuff in a pot and still not mess it up.”

Read on for our best scrap soup making tips

Milena Esser, The Conversation:

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, disinfectants became our shield. Hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes and antimicrobial sprays became part of daily life. They made us feel safe. Today, they are still everywhere: in homes, hospitals and public spaces.

But there’s a hidden cost. The chemicals we trust to protect us may also inadvertently help microbes evolve resistance and protect themselves against antibiotics.

Among the most common active ingredients in disinfectants are quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs). They are found not only in the wipes, sprays and liquids we use to clean surfaces at home and in hospitals, but also in everyday products like fabric softeners and personal care products.


Once QACs enter the environment, they meet microbial communities, networks of bacteria, archaea and fungi that recycle nutrients, purify water and support food webs.”



To clean responsibly, we need to think beyond what kills microbes today and consider how our choices shape the microbial world we will face tomorrow

Thanks to Organic Consumers like you, who sent over 200,000 letters to their Senators and Representatives concerning glyphosate, we’ve won a major battle in the fight against Bayer’s Roundup and the pesticide industry!

Our collective efforts had a major impact: Congress rejected a provision that would have shielded the pesticide makers who are lobbying to make it harder for consumers to sue over pesticide risks to human health.

But Bayer’s deadly pesticide is still on the market, putting all of us and the environment at risk.

And also, with a major scientific 25-year-old landmark study relied on to justify the safety of glyphosate recently retracted, we are urgently asking that the EPA take immediate action to reassess the safety of glyphosate.

We need your help to keep pushing forward to end the chemical assault on our land, water and health.

We must demand that Congress takes bold action to ban Roundup/Glyphosate once and for all.

Will you join us in this fight?

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David Nield, Science Alert:

“Our bodies age at different rates, sometimes closely correlated to the years we’ve spent alive, and sometimes less so. A new study links another factor to the speed at which our brains age: how much we help others.

Regularly volunteering can reduce the rate of cognitive aging by around 15–20 percent, according to research by a team from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the University of Massachusetts Boston in the US.

The findings are based on approximately two decades of telephone survey data from 31,303 people aged over 50. Scores on cognitive brain tests were mapped against helping behavior – whether volunteering with an organization or simply giving friends, relatives, and neighbors a hand as needed.”


Read how 2-4 hours per week spent helping others seems to be the sweet spot for optimizing its cognitive benefits

Environmental Health Sciences Staff, EHN:

“Mothers exposed to PFAS-contaminated water had 191% higher risk of their newborns dying within the first year of life, compared to mothers whose water sources were not downstream from contaminated sites.

Exposed mothers were also 168% more likely to give birth extremely prematurely (before 28 weeks of gestation) and 180% more likely to have babies with extremely low birth weights (less than 2.2 lbs).

Based on these results, the study authors estimate that PFAS cost the U.S. approximately $8 billion annually due to impacts to infant health.



The infants of New Hampshire mothers whose water sources flowed through sites contaminated by PFAS experienced significantly higher rates of adverse health outcomes, and even death, according to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Exposure to PFAS chemicals is widespread — analyses from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey have found that 97% to 100% of the U.S. population has detectable PFAS in their blood.”

Read how drinking water and diet are the main sources of PFAS exposure in adults, which can be transferred to children during pregnancy and breastfeeding

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your State Legislators to Ban PFAS Pesticides!

Ashley Fike, Vice:

“Most people don’t describe their problem as being indoors too much. They say they’re exhausted. Anxious. Wired at night and foggy during the day. Sleep doesn’t fix it. Rest doesn’t feel possible.

According to Dr. John La Puma, that cluster of symptoms has a common root we’ve gotten very good at ignoring.
He calls it digital obesity. Not a productivity problem or a motivation failure, but a biological state.

‘What’s getting overfed is the brain’s alerting system,’ La Puma explained to VICE in an email, and details in his upcoming book Indoor Epidemic. Screens, artificial light, constant novelty, and cognitive demand keep the nervous system switched on for most of the day. The inputs that normally allow it to recover, daylight, darkness at night, distance vision, and time outside, barely show up anymore. Doomscrolling is the most concentrated version of this pattern. You stay alert without resolution.
The exact number matters less than the mismatch.”

Human biology evolved around daily daylight, real darkness at night, movement, and time outdoors. Modern life removes most of those inputs.

READ: “Tried a Brick To Spend Less Time on My Phone—and I’m Not Sure How I Ever Lived Without It”

Jennifer Bamberg, Investigate Midwest:

“While nearly the same amount of corn and soybean acres have been planted every year since the mid-1990s, the use of pesticides in Illinois has increased exponentially, according to USDA data. Soy acres vs. pesticide use: from 10 million to 25 million pounds in two decades.
Use of all pesticides on soybeans, has more than doubled in Illinois since 2000 even as soybean acreage has stayed flat.



Before the commercial release of the genetically engineered seeds, glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, accounted for a fraction of a percent of the total herbicides used on corn in Illinois. But by 2010, just over a decade after the commercial launch of glyphosate-tolerant corn seeds, glyphosate use accounted for more than 28% of all herbicides used.”

The increase in pesticide use is causing significant damage to prairie grasses and trees across the state, particularly native oaks, hickory and box elders

by Suzanne Luke, University Art Curator, Robert Langen Art Gallery:

“Christi Belcourt artist statement:

When you look at Indigenous art traditions around the world, there is often a direct connection to the land implied in some way within the art. It’s no different for Metis People who were historically known as ‘The Flower Beadwork People.’ The understanding of how we’re supposed to live on the land is encoded into our beliefs which are sometimes found in the designs and symbols present in our artwork.

When I’m creating my art, I’m not simply transferring beadwork patterns onto the canvas; there has to be meaning behind it. So I will include certain plants or symbols into the painting that have a specific reason or coding behind them. It’s always primarily a message about the respect for lands and waters: the respect we need to have for the earth and everything that is around us. As human beings, we are mistaken if we think we are superior to other species.

My heart overflows with love for the beauty of this world.

I see war, but I paint flowers.

I paint what I want for this world. I try to reflect to the best of my ability the power and sacredness of Mother Earth which is the sacredness of all life as we know it.

May we live long enough to see humankind turn away from violence and greed and towards creating a world based on caring and giving. May we live long to see the world embrace global disarmament.

Prayers for the sick to be healed.

For the bombs to stop.

Freedom and dignity, care and enough for all.”



Belcourt invites viewers to self reflect on nature’s symbolic properties and the earthly connections between human existence and the natural world

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