Lead can sometimes enter drinking water in water systems with pipes that contain lead. Usually the insides of those pipes are coated with a protective layer, but corrosive water (such as in the tragic case of Flint, Michigan) can expose…
According to the EPA (2012 data), home and garden pesticides are a $3.33 billion market, and account for 24 percent of the pesticide expenditures in the United States. (The agriculture market accounts for 66 percent of the pesticide business in the U.S.;…