Whitman Hoping To Work With PCOs On Environmental "Solutions"
Subject: Whitman Hoping To Work With PCOs On Environmental "Solutions"..........
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:31:38 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article from Pest Control Technology entitled: Whitman
Hoping To Work With PCOs On Environmental Solutions.
By Brad Harbison
2/28/2002
URL: http://www.pctonline.com/news/news.asp?ID=1115/
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Todd Whitman encouraged PCOs to expand their roles as environmental stewards during her speech at the National Pest Management Association’s (NPMA) Legislative Day on Feb. 26. Whitman, the nation’s top environmental official, became the first EPA Administrator to make an appearance at an NPMA meeting.
Whitman told Legislative Day attendees that although the environment has actually improved in the last 30 years, environmental challenges of the 21st century are going to require a new set of solutions. Whitman said organizations like NPMA are going to have to play more of a role than they have in the past in finding environmental solutions.
“Working with organizations like (NPMA) is how we accomplish goals like making the air cleaner, the water purer and the land better protected,” Whitman said.
Whitman said she wants EPA to place less emphasis on racking up fines and more on promoting compliance and results.
“Somebody once said, ‘Environmental regulations are like cockroaches — for every one you see there are 12 you don’t,’” Whitman said.
Whitman added that she wants to develop a constructive relationship with the pest management industry.
“Your work helps makes homes, workplaces, schools safe and healthy and when we talk about environmental protection we are talking about improving the quality of life of fellow citizens,” Whitman said.
Whitman also spoke to NPMA Legislative Day attendees about other new EPA initiatives including legislation to improve air quality, water quality and legislation to encourage the development of “brownfields.” Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
Well Mr. Helliker, using and/or misusing your "registered" POISONS is not the way I talk about true environmental "solutions and/or protection", nor the way I talk about "improving the quality of life of my fellow citizens", nor do I consider that any of your terrible toxins will ever make "the air cleaner, the water purer and/or the land better protected" and/or that your "registered" POISONS will ever make any of our "homes, workplaces, schools safe and healthy ." If POISON applicators truly miss 12 environmental regulations for every "cockroach" that "they" see and can obey, this surely helps explains why we have world-wide "registered" pollution and pesticide contamination! Amazing! Simply Amazing!
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
If you would like to be included in our mailing list for continuing information on pesticides, Email Us. with "subscribe" in the subject line.