Update on DuPont tree killing week killer: Off the market now, since is killed trees at the DuPont Country Club
source: http://www.nationofchange.org/duponts-herbicide-goes-rogue-1315805149?fb_ref=.TnURC7di93s.li...
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http://www.nationofchange.org/duponts-herbicide-goes-rogue-1315805149...
"...The culprit turns out to be Imprelis, a DuPont weed-killer widely applied to lawns, golf courses, and — ironically — cemeteries.
Rather than just poisoning dandelions and other weeds, the herbicide also seems to be causing spruces, pines, willows, poplars, and other unintended victims to croak.
"It's been devastating," says a Michigan landscaper who applied Imprelis to about a thousand properties this spring and has already had more than a third of them suffer outbreaks of tree deaths. "It looks like someone took a flamethrower to them," he says.
At first, DuPont tried to dodge responsibility, claiming that landscape workers might be applying the herbicide improperly. The corporation even urged customers to be patient and leave the tree corpses on their lawns to see if they'd come back to life in a few years.
However, faith-based landscaping was a hard sell. Disgruntled homeowners began filing lawsuits. Then DuPont had its own "aha!" moment when trees on the grounds of the DuPont Country Club also developed the "unfavorable symptoms" of Imprelis poisoning.
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?"
Read the full article at the link, for the perspective only Jim Hightower can lend. And here is a current thread on the topic, from July 21, 2011 posted by coolplanet:
http://current.com/technology/93352935_is-new-weedkiller-wiping-out-americas-tre...
DuPont is synonymous with dead IMHO Wondering if their stocks are heading for the morgue soon too.
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