Date Sent	Subject
July 2000	NEXT
06-29-00a	Physician Group Accuses EPA of Endangering Children's Health The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) says the Environmental Protection Agency is "mounting a massive delay strategy" instead of taking steps to reduce levels of known hazardous chemicals to which children are exposed.
06-29-00	Environmentalists, Taxpayers, Scientists Charge EPA with Foul Play on Downgrading Cancer Rating of Widely Used Pesticide
06-28-00	EPA - Unanswered questions about Malathion Today in a meeting at EPA in Washington, and later at lunch with Dr. Brian Dementi, EPA Toxicologist, a group of 8 scientists, activists and an attorney, learned why we cannot trust EPA. Is the EPA lazy, stupid, avoiding/hiding the facts for money?  Which ever it is, it is killing us.
6-26-00	Wanted:  Warren Anderson Former Union Carbide CEO on the run from responsibility for 5,000 deaths in Bophal.  Yet, we still buy poison from Union Carbide to spray on US citizens.
6-24-00	Silent Spring Institute (SSI) Study found that cancer rates among women who routinely used pesticides is higher
06-23-00b	EPA Internal Memo: Malathion A Carcinogen Dr. Brian Dementi, has a conscience, and as the toxicologist at EPA cannot allow them to continue to poison the people of this country and protect the chemical companies.
06-23-00a	HOUSE BLOCKS REDUCTIONS IN ARSENIC, RADON IN DRINKING WATER AND SMOG Congress defied public opinion and common sense by voting against reducing the arsenic and radon in our nation's drinking water and smog from our air
06-23-00	Despite growing evidence of the damages from pesticides, Gov. Davis of California signs multi-million dollar bill to spray pesticides for the benefit of wine growers. (This should make New York's malathion spraying look like a picnic.)
06-22-00b	Exposure Case Study - Available for More Than 20 Years, Pesticide Dursban Is Taken Off Market The case of chlorpyrifos, commonly known as Dursban, which has been on the market for more than 20 years and has been the most widely used pesticide in homes and schools, highlights how Americans have been exposed to what is now considered a substance not appropriate for most consumer uses.
06-22-00a	EPA Continues Implementation Of Azinphos-Methyl Risk Reduction Measures (Oops... it seems to be much worse then we thought)
06-22-00	Poisoned minds - Is your kid's school being sprayed with pesticides? A school is sprayed for weeds while classes are in session and has to be evacuated after students and staff are treated by paramedics.  Another school reports dozens suffering from the effects of ant killer, and one staff member describes the odor as being "like nothing he had experienced since tear gas in the military."
06-21-00	New York State to Require Pesticide Warning Flags ...under a legislative agreement reached on Monday, would become the first in the nation to require homeowners to post warning flags to alert their neighbors when they use pesticides on their lawns. (Love thy neighbor takes on a whole new meaning.)
06-20-00a	DENMARK'S NEW PLAN TO REDUCE PESTICIDES In December 1999, Denmark announced a new pesticide reduction program that includes plans to more than triple the amount or organic farmland in that country.
6-20-00	Letter to the Seattle Times rebutting William O. Robertson's opinion that Pests are more harmful than pesticides and decrying the banning of Dursban (One wonders if Dr. Robertson has an endowment from Dow)
06-18-00b	50 Years is Enough - U. S. Network for Global Economic Justice - Poison Profits - The G-7 Pesticide Industry's Stake in the World Bank.  World Bank-approved contracts support many chemicals requiring the use of protective gear and separate storage facilities, yet the realities of life in developing countries mean that the poorest people don't have access to such protections.
06-18-00a	EPA PROPOSES NEW DISPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS ON RESIDENTIAL PESTICIDE  PRODUCT LABELS
06-18-00	Good News for kids in Massachusetts Bad News Diazinon Use Threatens Salmon Survival
06-16-00	Why is it, that there seems to other way for "scientists" to try to "control" pests - other than the continual use of some synthetic neurotoxin? (There is more profit for chemical companies than safe pest control.)
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