About this series
Investigate Midwest analyzed data across the country amd interviewed 100 farmers, environmentalists, lawmakers and scientists as part of a partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. The result was the picture of a nation at a crossroads in dealing with this public health crisis that has not just been ignored by state and federal health officials, but aided.
These stories were produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Pesticide use and cancer risk rise together across America’s heartland
America’s farmers and farmworkers, their families and neighbors, are being diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than the national average. A growing body of research indicates that pesticides are partly to blame.
3 charts to better understand the potential link between pesticides and cancer
Most counties with the highest pesticide use also have cancer rates above the national average.
Monsanto argues for lawsuit immunity in case before Supreme Court
Justices weigh Monsanto’s claim of EPA ‘green light’ for business as usual while Trump’s pro-glyphosate executive order clashes with MAHA’s anti-pesticide push.
High pesticide-use counties often have higher-than-average late-stage cancer rates
Glyphosate data analysis shows connection to most aggressive forms of cancer across the nation’s agricultural heartland.
North Dakota’s Red River Valley a pesticide and cancer hotspot
The state’s easternmost counties have the highest rates of agrichemical use and cancer rates.
‘In every room, every hand would go up’: Panelists discuss cancer, pesticides and environmental risks
Decades of industrialized farming, pressure from chemical manufacturers and federal farm policy have left many producers relying heavily on pesticides.
