U.S. Right to Know
Ballard Partners: Lobbying for tobacco, pesticide, alcohol, and chemical interests at the highest levels of Trump’s Washington
An analysis of federal lobbying disclosures by U.S. Right to Know found that Ballard Partners reported more than $38 million in estimated lobbying fees between January 2025 and September 2026…
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11mScientists say this pesticide needs a warning label for pollinators
Recent research reveals that the agricultural pesticide buprofezin may cause severe larval mortality in honey bees, prompting experts to call for stricter EPA warning labels and usage restrictions.
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10mPesticide lobby touts MAHA report rollback as its biggest win of 2025
CropLife America successfully lobbied the MAHA Commission to remove proposed pesticide restrictions from its final strategy, marking a significant victory for the chemical industry over public health initiatives.
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22mHow food companies turn taxpayer-funded school meals into a market for ultra-processed foods
Ultra-processed food companies heavily market their products and brands through a program that lets schools send fresh USDA-supplied ingredients for processing. Most become convenience foods, including ultra-processed foods, which have been linked to many health harms.
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9mBabies exposed to microplastics and hormone-disrupting chemicals through formula, plastic bottles, infant feeding supplies
Babies may consume millions of microplastics and traces of harmful chemicals through infant formula, plastic bottles, and other feeding products.
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24mBefore COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus more infectious
On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea.