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5-31-00e	Consumer Advisory on "Registered" Pesticide POISONS At issue specifically are four categories of claims that the attorney general says are misleading and that PCOs must cease within 30 days in the case of business signs, billboards, vehicles, business cards, letterhead, etc. and within one year in the case of Yellow Page advertising. (Finally the mask is coming off pesticides and the people who push them.)
5-31-00d	EPA ISSUES GUIDANCE ON THE EXEMPTION OF MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDES UNDER FIFRA SECTION 25(B).
5-31-00c	BRAIN DAMAGE FOUND IN U.S. GULF WAR SYNDROME VICTIMS Syndrome 3, characterized by central pain, is found in veterans who wore insect repellent with high concentrations of DEET, a common ingredient in many mosquito and tick repellents.
5-31-00b	Doris "Granny D" Haddock - One Person Can Make A Difference Do you care enough to stand up and state what you believe? Do you have enough moxie to do what this old lady did?  It does not take a lot of courage to do what is right.  Only those who live in fear are quiet when great wrongs are being committed!
5-31-00a	EWG Launches BanDursban.org Web site -  To Urge EPA To Ban Toxic Bug Killer Dursban is a member of a class of highly toxic pesticides called organophosphates, originally developed as nerve gases by a Nazi contractor, I.G. Farben, during WWII.
5-31-00	In The Killing Fields - Dandelions (taraxacum oficinale) It is ironic that the power of advertising has caused humankind to react by spending millions of dollars waging chemical warfare on the "deadly" dandelion while risking everyone's health rather than embracing them on their lawns.
5-26-00	Victims of life-threatening diseases think there is 'an invisible killer' in Carpinteria ... today, millions of Americans work and live in environments full of dangerous contaminants.
5-19-00a	Aerial Spraying Health risk cited - Professor calls for closure of soccer fields hit by Btk
5-19-00	Discord Over EPA Pesticide Report May Trigger Congressional Probe Accusing the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) of "obfuscating the truth," Congressman Gary Ackerman declared last week that the federal agency's preliminary report calling the pesticide malathion safe leaves many unanswered questions and he is considering an investigation into its handling of the probe.
5-18-00d	Moth-eaten state - The spraying for gypsy moths proceeds, damaging government en route.   The problem for the public is that Big Science is as concerned with profit margins as Big Business is and Government  (citizens are further down the economic food chain)
5-18-00c	More Cities and Towns moving to ban pesticides to protect citizens
5-18-00b	While Government and Agrochemical worry about industry's profit margin.  Citizens demand ban on dursBAN
5-18-00a	Organic Farmer Defends Crop Two planes were spraying a bacteria that kills gypsy-moth larvae when the unidentified farmer fired a weapon, striking one of the aircraft.
5-18-00	The Chemical Meadow - The Perfect Lawn May Not Be the Best Thing to Have Around Your House In 1999, homeowners dumped nearly 50 million pounds of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers on their lawns. And in mowing our lawns, we produced as much pollution every half hour as a car driven 172 miles.
5-17-00c	STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE ORDERS OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (OEM) TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO 1999 NYC PESTICIDE SPRAYING  VICTORY FOR NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE PROJECT TO BOLSTER LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY FOR ACTIONS RELATING TO  WEST NILE VIRUS   (Finally, citizens will find out what was done to them during the pesticide spraying)
5-17-00b	Higher standards for fruit, vegetable pesticides urged - Committee warns of children's vulnerability because of large numbers of chemicals used Canada moves to protect its children...
5-17-00a	EPA Cites Cancer Risks From Dioxin The Environmental Protection Agency in a draft report concludes that the cancer risk from exposure to dioxins is significantly greater than previously estimated
5-17-00	People before Pesticides - Ban Urged On Lawn Chemicals Commons committee to propose act for reducing health threat of pesticides (POISONS)
5-14-00	Coalition Demands Federal Investigation on EPA Reversal of Malathion EPA's web site announces that malathion is a “carcinogen.” However, Cheminova met behind closed doors with EPA officials and emerged victorious in having the report reversed. (Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?)
5-13-00a	Former EPA Executives work to keep pesticides on the Market  (Profit Before People) The Pombo bill essentially would reverse the burden of proof, requiring the EPA to provide detailed justification before it sought to apply any additional safety margins for children. ... manufacturers that want to register new types of pesticides would still be allowed to use assumptions or calculations rather than conducting studies, making it easier for them to sell new compounds at the same time it would be harder for EPA to restrict old ones
5-13-00	CHEMICAL EXPOSURES LINKED TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES A new national report links chemicals used by industry and at home to developmental disabilities
5-12-00c	Malathion Risk Assessment EPA's assessment raises concerns, for the first time, about malathion's cancer risk. Concerns have also been raised about respiratory, allergic and asthma problems related to malathion exposure, as well as possible endocrine disrupting effects.
5-12-00b	Report from Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility A pregnant woman who spends a few hours on a home-improvement project may unwittingly be putting  her child at risk for problems ranging from hyperactivity to autism
5-12-00a	First National Survey Shows Americans' Bedding Can Make Them Sick; Allergens the Culprit
5-12-00	Town proves that Non Toxic pest and weed control works! According to Dan Diemer, Arcata's Park Superintendent, "From a management perspective, it is actually easier not to use pesticides.
5-11-00a	Lobster Die-Off Spreads To Other Sea Life More than lobsters are dying in Long Island Sound in what some scientists are calling one of the most severe ecological disasters to strike the East Coast. Spider crabs, sea urchins and starfish also have been found dead in hundreds of lobster pots pulled from the water recently.
5-11-00	10 Most Dangerous Toxins in your Home Don't be a statistical figure on the CDC's tracking list: Be aware of what substances, from pesticides to cleaners, pose threats in your household.
5-7-00a	Home Bug Spray May Increase Parkinson's Risk ...it is the first study to show a significant association between home pesticide use and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease
5-7-00	State Study on Pesticide Flawed, Experts Say Pollution: Plan fails to address certain scenarios for exposure to methyl bromide, according to federal scientists "lacking in several respects," including examinations of situations that may expose children to the controversial chemical. (Kids can't vote... is this the problem?)
5-4-00a	Big Rise in "Registered" Pesticide Use in California Despite a nationwide trend toward curbing hazardous waste and industrial air emissions, the use of cancer-causing pesticides more than doubled in California in eight years
5-4-00	The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to restrict chlorpyrifos (Dursban) EPA officials also have analyzed research indicating humans may be more sensitive to the chemical than laboratory animals, and studies indicating the chemical may pose special risks to developing nervous systems.  (Developing nervous systems means children.)
5-3-00c	Cancer-Causing Pesticide Use Rising in California Use of cancer-causing pesticides in California has more than doubled in the past eight years, up 127% between 1991 and 1998, according to a report released by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA). (This could be a low estimate because so much is used in homes or goes unreported.)
5-3-00b	U.S. Lags in Toxicity Data The nation's health experts are unable to gauge the effect of many potentially toxic chemicals on humans because the federal government has failed to study such exposure
5-3-00a	Chlordane found in foods decades after ("registered") pesticide use A new report says buyers of fresh produce may get something unexpected: chlordane, a  now-banned hazardous chemical introduced more than five decades ago.
5-3-00	First Malathion-Related Lawsuit settled In Florida Malathion was cited by the CDC as the probable cause of sickness in numerous reported cases.
5-01-00a	Drug War Turns Toxic Schools, villages and food crops sprayed with glyphosate-based herbicides
5-01-00	Sick School Syndrome - Are Your Kids at Risk?
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