Date Sent	Subject
Aug. 2000	NEXT
07-31-00a	Organic Farming and Products Vindicated after evidence shows that John Stossel and ABC's 20/20 program was slanted and not based on facts
07-31-00	Pesticide POISONS Can Cause Breathing Problems -- Duh!---- These Australian researchers have shown that sprays can reduce respiratory capacity by an average of 9% compared with an environment without insecticides.
07-29-00	Newsday, SHAME on your West Nile Editorial! (Editorial Opinion - Cities should prepare to spray pesticides - gets a response from another citizen angered by media misrepresentations)
07-28-00b	ATLANTA CONSTITUTION JOINS the HALL of SHAME! By Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International The only sure way to enjoy freedom of the press is to own one. The rest of us have to rely on reporting sometimes unhinged from the truth
07-28-00a	MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION--PART 1 Joe Thornton's  book PANDORA'S POISON - Review Thornton shows that in just 60 years, the petrochemical industry has contaminated every living thing on earth with novel toxicants, some of which disrupt life's fundamental processes at levels measured in parts per trillion (a proportion equivalent to one drop in a train of tank cars 10 miles long)
07-28-00	Banyan Elementary Holds Off on Fumigation Plans: Public Outcry Leads School District to Plan Meetings with Residents   Parents have power to stop pesticides in schools.
07-27-00b	Pesticide spraying set for Rancho Cordova Profits before People
07-27-00a	Less-toxic pest controls gaining ground
07-27-00	Open Letter to Mayor Giuliani - The Mayor has forgotten he is not supposed to claim pesticides are safe.
07-26-00a	West Nile Reports State sprays area in war against mosquitoes Central Park reopens after spraying for virus-carrying mosquitoes Residents upset over spraying notification
07-26-00	Report Links Environmental Rulings, Judges' Free Trips Corporate special interests are attempting to buy judicial influence at the highest levels, and it appears to be working...
07-23-00a	NO SPRAY COALITION'S RESPONSE TO MAYOR GIULIANI'S EXPANSION OF  INSECTICIDE SPRAYING - FOLLOWING FILING  OF LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF NEW YORK FOR INDISCRIMINATE PESTICIDE SPRAYING.   "The Mayor has gone bonkers in his bunker.  City officials always claimed that spraying deadly insecticides would be a 'last resort.'  How did a few dead birds become a 'last resort'?"
07-23-00	ACTIVISTS FILE LAWSUIT SEEKING HALT TO PESTICIDE SPRAYING The plaintiffs allege that the city failed to apply for the appropriate permits, neglected to conduct Environmental Impact Statements, and violated pesticide product label restrictions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the federal pesticide-control law.
07-22-00	Chemical pesticides will continue to play a significant role in U.S. agriculture for at least the next decade, says a new report from the National Research Council (NRC) .... before the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS, man and his property including his crops and animals survived and even prospered using only ALTERNATIVES!  - S. Tvedten
07-19-00	Europe to Ban Lindane and Permethrin from use on crops but not from personal use for head lice, scabies, etc.   (Excuse me, this doesn't make any sense.  If these poisons are to horrible to use on crops just in case we might ingest them... why still allow our children to be soaked in them for head lice.)
07-18-00a	A Civics Lesson for Big Tobacco The jury thought the size of the verdict "would put the companies on notice -- not just the tobacco companies, all companies -- concerning fraud or misrepresentation of the American public (Wake up Dow, Monsanto, Union Carbide and the rest of the poison producers.  YOU ARE NEXT!)
07-18-00	The Precautionary Principal At Work in Columbia Amid complaints from environmentalists, the state of Florida last year ditched a plan to test a strain of Fusarium against marijuana crops. Colombians wonder why the U.S. government is so eager to use it in their country.
07-16-00e	Deadline for Diazinon public comment (Why should there ever be a deadline on toxic pesticide poisons and chemicals?)
07-16-00d	EPA CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT "Proposed Guidance on Cumulative Risk Assessment of Pesticide Chemicals that have a Common Mechanism of Toxicity" (Just trying to find out how much poisons the chemical companies can pour on everything we eat, drink and breath before it kills us.)
07-16-00c	ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CAUSE MORE CANCERS THAN GENETICS Most cancers are caused by environmental factors, not genetic problems, a new study concludes.
07-16-00b	The EPA Strikes Back Opponents now say EPA has flouted the expressed will of Congress. (Of course, the will of congress had to do with the will of special interests)
07-16-00a	National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC)  Resolution on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Please help support this Resolution!
07-16-00	U.S. UNDERMINES POPS TREATY The U.S. is pushing to weaken the force of the Precautionary Principle in the POPs treaty. (Chemical companies set US Policy)
07-14-00	Malaria Tops Agenda at Russian Pesticide Meeting (Good by Lyndon Hawkins... )
07-13-00a	Home, Sick Home Environmental Protection Agency studies show that the air inside homes has more pollutants than the air on a smoggy day in Denver. And because people spend roughly 90 percent of their lives indoors, this sickly air comes at a sickly price.
07-13-00	Locust Control in Madagascar Past experience points to the dangers of ignoring a precautionary approach.
07-07-00	Canada:  WHY WE NEED TO PUT A MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF PESTICIDES FOR COSMETIC AND OTHER UNNECESSARY PURPOSES
07-06-00	Bug and weed killers can strike more than their intended targets, so it’s wise to keep them away from children. Yet many school districts use these chemicals. Some states that have surveyed their school districts, including New York and Wisconsin, have found use of these agents in 80 to 90 percent of cases.
07-05-00a	Inadequacy of the LD50 Test The designers of the LD50 test in 1927 acknowledged its serious inadequacies, intending it only for certain narrow medical purposes. Nevertheless, use of the LD50 test has become widespread as a general measurement of chemical toxicity. The LD50 has been challenged for decades as both unreliable and uninformative.
07-05-00	Monsanto's Roundup show adverse effects in all standard categories of toxicological testing, including medium-term toxicity, long-term toxicity, genetic damage, effects on reproduction, and  carcinogenicity.  (Do you know what you're eating?)
07-04-00a	Atrazine, the most common weed killer on the nation’s farms, and a common tap water contaminant, is more toxic than previously believed. ... even single day exposure to atrazine has the potential to cause a range of reproductive effects and developmental defects
07-04-00	Over half of the cases involving the pesticide poisoning of children actually happen in the home and garden. Pesticides News #48.
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