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Guest Blog: International Meeting Offers Pesticide Hope
By Kathryn Gilje I was born 20 miles from the Canadian border, as the crow flies. Childhood runs for a ‘mack’ and regular trips to the border were common. But this week, my Canadian journey was quite different: to Ottawa, seat of the Canadian government, and to a convergence of over 50 pesticide regulators from 30 [...]
Continue reading...Federal Government Takes Pesticide Safety Training Out of Budget
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Three major scientific groups concerned with the control of insects and disease are expressing their collective concern that the federal government is turning its back to pesticide safety education. Whereas approximately $2 million was appropriated through the Environmental Protection Agency a decade ago, the budget was zero this year according to information circulated broadly on [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Steingraber on Lawns: Walk Upstream to Enlightenment
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A friend of ours, a film producer in Hollywood, sent us this link from Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a modern-day Rachel Carson: http://www.livingdownstream.com/essays/canadian_bylaws
Continue reading...From 1967 to Now: Another Town Poised to Take Action
Friday, September 2, 2011
Did you know the lawn chemical industry can be traced to the second weekend of April of 1967? That’s the weekend the “Augusta Syndrome” was born, causing grown men across the U.S. to covet perfectly manicured green lawns of their own. The picture, at left, shows a young Jack Nicklaus fitting Gay Brewer with his [...]
Continue reading...School Pesticide Debate Heats Up in the Denver Summer
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The same debate we’ve seen unfold in at least a half dozen other states in the past two years is grabbing headlines in Colorado. On one side a group of concerned parents thinks lawn pesticides are dangerous; on the other, a group of lawn care professionals who claim the products are safe when used as [...]
Continue reading...The Most Important Day in Pesticide History? That Would be June 28
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Today Marks 10th Anniversary of Supreme Court Decision Search on-line on one of those this-day-in-history lists and you won’t find my nomination for the MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT’S EVER HAPPENED on the 179th day of the year (not counting leap years). All sorts of other important stuff shares a June 28 anniversary. I didn’t know, for [...]
Continue reading...U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition to Reconsider Ban of Deadly Pesticide
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
In another example of how corporate bottom line trumps public health concern, the FMC Corporation- the leading manufacturer of carbofuran- and a group of powerful agribusiness lobbyists including the National Corn Growers Association, challenged, yet again, the ban on the pesticide, despite its reputation for being a deadly poison. In 2006, the EPA announced that all [...]
Continue reading...El Salvador Rejects Monsanto and Embraces Food Sovereignty
Friday, May 27, 2011
Like the towns of Sedgwick, Penobscot, and Blue Hill, in Maine, the country of El Salvador has now declared “food sovereignty” from the hegemony of international market dictates, particularly those of agricultural giants like Monsanto. President Mauricio Funes is inaugurating a new plan aimed at reactivating the country’s historically ignored rural economy and reversing El Salvador’s [...]
Continue reading...Report Rates Strength of Canadian Pesticide Bans
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Although approximately 80 percent of Canadians now live under the protection of some sort of restriction on weed killers and other pesticides, not all of the laws and ordinances are created equally. Today the David Suzuki Foundation issued a report ranking the strength of the bans in the six different provinces that have regulated these [...]
Continue reading...Lower IQs Linked to Pesticide Exposure
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Although organophosphates, like malthion, have been banned for residential use by the EPA since 2001, they are still very present in conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables, and are often used to control pests in public places. They work by irreversibly blocking an enzyme that’s critical to nerve function, and can be absorbed through the lungs, skin, [...]
Continue reading...- Miracle Gro Deal with Wildlife Federation Outrages Environmental Community
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- Corn Gluten Meal as Weed Control?: 20 Years Later, the Jury is Still Out
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