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Green Eyes On: Atrazine Higher in June – Watch Out Midwesterners!

Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. I saw on my local news station’s website and recently in The Organic Center’s newsletter, The Scoop, warnings about The “June Effect.” The definition: Relatively high levels of the corn herbicide atrazine are present in Midwestern water supplies in June, following the spring spray season, triggering an increase in birth defects among children born nine months later. Source: “Atrazine Co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Eyes On: Atrazine Higher in June – Watch Out Midwesterners!