In a stunning turn of events, the EPA is on the verge of banning Syngenta’s Atrazine, a dangerous herbicide that has been banned in Europe for 12 years.

We’ve been pushing the EPA to take the risks of Atrazine seriously for years -- it’s been linked with breast and prostate cancer, reduced fertility, genital deformities and birth defects. But our pleas -- and our scientific evidence -- have fallen on deaf ears.

Until now. For the first time, the EPA has come out and publicly acknowledged that Atrazine affects animals, insects and plants. You better believe this got the agro-chemical industry buzzing—and it is marshalling an army of lobbyists to make the EPA change its mind.

But now that we’ve got the EPA on the right side of history, there’s no going back. Do what Europe did in 2004: Ban Atrazine!

Atrazine is particularly scary because of what it does to water; It is the number one contaminant found in drinking water in the US, and probably the world. Studies have shown that it has already contaminated one in five groundwater sources in the United States.

But Syngenta and other agro-chemical giants have been relentless in keeping the science secret. In 1997, Syngenta hired Tyrone Hayes to study Atrazine. But when he found that it caused genital deformities in frogs and might in humans too, Syngenta refused to allow him to publish his findings. A recent class-action suit alleges that Syngenta then tried to smear Hayes’s reputation. That’s the kind of tactics and ruthlessness you can bet it will bring to this EPA decision.

This is a decision 12 years in the making, but we’re so close. Demand a full ban of Syngenta’s Atrazine.

We have fought Syngenta’s chemicals tooth and nail. It produces neonics, the bee-killing pesticide devastating pollinator populations worldwide. But hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members are fighting back -- and we’re on the brink of a huge victory here if we can beat the industry lobbyists to the punch.

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