The herbicide atrazine is a lethal threat to frogs: Concentrations in thousands of U.S. rivers, ponds, and streams can get high enough to cause the death of amphibians, including imperiled dusky gopher frogs and Illinois chorus frogs. And in people atrazine exposure is linked to birth defects, elevated cancer risk, and other health problems.
The Center sent a comprehensive analysis to President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency showing how a Biden-era plan would allow extremely harmful levels of atrazine pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds. Trump says he wants to make America healthy again, so now’s the moment to reject this outrageously weak plan and ban the poison — as 60 other countries already have.
“President Trump has an early opportunity to make good on his pledge to clean up the nation’s water with a ban on atrazine,” said Center biologist Nathan Donley. “A 99% failure rate is unacceptable in any context but horrific when we’re talking about an extraordinarily toxic pesticide killing wildlife and contaminating the drinking water of millions of Americans.”
Back our fight: Tell the EPA to ban atrazine once and for all.
