DuPont's Herbicide Goes Rogue (became a tree killer)

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http://www.truth-out.org/duponts-herbicide-goes-rogue/1315835789


The company's landscaping weed-killer turned out to be a tree-killer.


In the corporate world's tortured language, workers are no longer fired. They just experience an "employment adjustment." But the most twisted euphemism I've heard in a long time comes from DuPont: "We are investigating the reports of these unfavorable tree symptoms," the pesticide maker recently stated.

How unfavorable? Finito, flat-lined, the tree is dead. Not just one tree, but hundreds of thousands all across the country are suffering the final "symptom."

The culprit turns out to be Imprelis, a DuPont weed-killer widely applied to lawns, golf courses, and — ironically — cemeteries.

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So, with DuPont's cooperation, the EPA has finally banned sales of the tree-killing herbicide. But because of inadequate testing and a rush to profit, the poison will remain in the soil — and our water— for many moons. Trees will continue to die. Will we never learn?
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[saras]

1. It didn't "go rogue", it was always a bad idea, and known to be a bad idea

DuPont seems to be taking a page from Montsanto's "make organic agriculture impossible" program.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Interlocking corporate boards? nt