This series looks at a number of foundations that have tilted the balance of power in certain debates by funding an army of activist organizations or directly engaging at political levels.| www.thefirebreak.org
A new EWG peer-reviewed study has found chlormequat, a little-known pesticide, in four out of five, or 80 percent, people tested. The groundbreaking analysis of chlormequat in the bodies of people in the U.S. rings alarm bells, because the chemical is linked to reproductive and developmental problems in animal studies, suggesting the potential for similar harm to humans.| Environmental Working Group
The Quaker Oats Company faces a class action after lab testing allegedly detected “dangerously high” levels of a potentially toxic pesticide in six products.| www.classaction.org
David Zaruk and Kathleen Hefferon unravelled how the Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) was created by tort lawyers and activists from the organic food industry to fund scientists who would manufacture research beneficial to their campaigns.| www.thefirebreak.org