Showing videos filed under: atrazine

• Rebuilding New Orleans, Claude Thomas, and How Fiji Water Became Cool

  September 2, 2009

  Four years on from Hurricane Katrina and with a new president in the White House has anything changed? We look at recovery and rebuilding on the gulf coast. Claude Anshin Thomas discusses his new book, At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey From War to Peace. And the story of Fiji water. How'd it become so cool?

  • american news project
  • at hell\'s gate
  • atrazine
  • Brave New Films
  • claude anshin thomas
  • fiji water
  • gulf coast
  • huffington post
  • hurricane katrina
  • NAACP
  • New Orleans
  • renika moore
  • saket soni
  • state radio
  • zaltho foundation

• How Safe is Atrazine?

  September 2, 2009

  The American News Project and The Huffington Post Investigative Fund on how a weed killer, Atrazine, is polluting our water. The second most widely used pesticide in the US, Atrazine is commonly found in groundwater. The corn and ethanol industries depend on it. But what are the risks? The entire EU has banned the use of Atrazine, produced by Syngenta in Switzerland, but in the United States it's still widely used.

  • american news project
  • atrazine
  • corn
  • ethanol
  • huffington post
  • pesticides