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Activists Stall Worcester Pesticide Plan

Under pressure from SafeLawns, the Pesticide Action Network and especiallly the Toxics Action Network — which testified in person — authorities from the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture delayed a vote on whether or not to allow extensive soil drenching of imidacloprid across 15 square miles of Worcester, Mass. Check back by noon tomorrow for an [...]

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Moment of Truth Today in Worcester Pesticide Travesty

Today at 9:30 government officials in Boston will decide whether or not to allow the drenching of 15 square miles of imidacloprid to eradicate the Asian longhorn beetle. SafeLawns, joined by the Toxics Action Center and the Pesticide Action Network of North America, called for citizens to speak out. The local media jumped on the [...]

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PANNA Joins Effort to Block Worcester Drenching

PRESS RELEASE UPDATED FROM 9/11: www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/pesticide-emergency-in-worcester-mass/ To take action, please read that post! Groups Oppose Drenching of Pesticide in Massachusetts Banned in Europe, Imidacloprid Linked to Colony Collapse Disorder WASHINGTON, D.C. — The national public awareness group known as Pesticide Action Network North America today joined The SafeLawns Foundation and the Toxics Action Center in calling on the [...]

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Take Action: Pesticide Emergency in Worcester, Mass.

Here is the text of a letter I am circulating throughout Massachusetts. Please paste it to anyone who will listen. See the full press release below: If you agree with my concerns, please feel free to use the letter as a basis for your own letters to the editors of your local papers, or to Massachusetts [...]

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