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Agriculture your username May 3, 2021 More than 100 organizations, led by the Center for Biological Diversity, sent a letter Friday to the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) asking them to reduce pesticide use in areas designated as critical habitats for endangered species. The letter asked the DOI and FWS to step in because, it alleged, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not doing enough.  “Pesticides are, right at this moment, jeopardizing the continued existence of many of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Spe...

Listen • 1:15 Oregon’s mink industry is small, but some see it as a threat in the fight against COVID-19. In response, a new bill in the legislature seeks to end all mink farming in the state. If passed, all 11 mink farms in Oregon would close by the end of the year. COVID-19 can spread between humans and minks, and there have been reported mutations of the virus among mink populations. Lori Ann Burd is with the Center for Biological Diversity. She says this ban would be crucial in protecting public health. “What we’ve learned is that mink are just so uniquely sus...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) backed agrochemical giants like Bayer AG by affirming that the pesticide poses no risks to human health despite initially agreeing with WHO. EPA’s wishy-washy approach to regulating, if not totally banning, glyphosate might soon be put to rest now that the non-profit advocacy group Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed its opening arguments and evidence in its litigation challenging the EPA’s re-approval of the controversial pesticide ingredient. Representing a broad coalition of farmers, farmworkers and conservationists, CFS filed its lawsuit in ...

/ A wild mink tested positive for the coronavirus last week in Utah. After a COVID-19 outbreak at an Oregon mink farm last month, activists say regulators in the state need to tighten enforcement on mink farms to limit the spread of the virus to wildlife. The animal in Utah was the first wild mink to test positive, indicating the risk of spread between farmed and wild animals. Lori Ann Burd is with the environmental group the Center for Biological Diversity. She says regulators need to be proactive to protect wildlife from the deadly virus. “Mink do escape regularly from farms and so ensuri...

Published December 15, 2020 at 6:43 PM MST Listen • 5:01 / Zion National Park officials said they have recently seen an increase in the amount of graffiti left by visitors to the Southwest Utah park. This story and more in Tuesday evening's news brief. Tuesday evening, December 15, 2020 State Tuesday COVID Update Utah reported 1,915 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, the second day in a row where cases have come in under 2,000. The state’s rolling 7-day average for the percent of laboratory tests that come back positive is about 23%, and 15 more people have died fro...