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Fairfax, California:  Taking on the bureaucrats and pesticide poison industry.  Fairfax defends its new, public right to know, "Neighbor Notification Law".  Updated as events happen

Lawn-be-gone? Not anytime soon

Political Defection Impacts Lawn Care Issues
"Our job just got harder," said David Crow, lobbyist for the Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE).

Email from a Pest Control Professional
Think of every horror story listed on your site and multiply it by one thousand. Now you have roughly our personal exposure level to toxic pesticides.

Toxic-tainted Arctic animals passing poisons on to Inuit
The seals, whales and walruses that are the staples of the Inuit diet have become deposits for the world's 12 most toxic chemicals, persistent organic pollutants that collect in the animals' fat and are passed on to the Inuit as they eat, or through breast milk.

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's web site
If New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer can understand that chemical violence is just as wrong as gun violence, Joe wondered why some other "regulators" can't understand the same thing .

EPA Update
Still More Proof Your "Registered" POISONS Were Not Properly "Tested"...........

Some To Get Agent Orange Testing
In a little-publicized initiative, the Veterans Affairs Department expanded a program previously offered to Vietnam War veterans to include people who served in Korea in 1968-69.

LIFTING THE VEIL OF SECRECY
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has posted on the Internet a database of over 1,100 professors and scientists who consult for or have other affiliations with chemical, gas, oil, food, drug, and other companies.

ChemLawn's Potent Cocktail
When I asked ChemLawn not to spray because we were poisoned two years ago, they answered that it was their right to spray. 

California pesticide use data by chemical, crop and geographic area
New Database from Pesticide Action Network North America

Surge in Childhood Cancer Rates in New Zealand
The increase comes as birth rates in New Zealand are falling. There were 56,532 in the year to March 2001, 6 percent below the 60,331 recorded a decade earlier.

Endocrine disruptors may be dangerous even at minute levels, EPA panel now says 
The solution, Swartz says, is to get the synthetic chemicals off the market and help industry invest in research and development to make the transition. "If you are not getting any health benefit [from these chemicals], and there is some evidence of health risk, then let's get this stuff off the market," he says.

Quebec considers a bill to spray pesticides on its citizens
"to establish and implement a plan of action to control the insects in particular through the use of pesticides in any part of the territory of Québec."

The Killer in Your Yard
Each year we pour approximately 136 million pounds of pesticides on our homes, lawns, and gardens, which amounts to three times more per acre than the average farmer applies.

ECOLOGICAL DISASTER AVERTED????
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; TREATING THE WORLD'S SOIL LIKE DIRT
"In 1992 the Environmental Protection Agency was only a few weeks away from ending life on the planet as we know it," so writes George Lawton in the April, 2001 issue of Acres USA ("A Voice For Eco-Agriculture")

EPA agrees dioxin poses cancer risk
A scientific advisory committee voted unanimously Tuesday to send a long-stalled report to federal regulators concluding that dioxin causes cancer in laboratory animals and possibly in people.

Why we should eat (and touch) only organic food
Grocery chain may be selling produce sprayed with banned pesticides

Chemical Industry's Response to the Precautionary Principal
This is written by Wirthlin a public relations firm and Nichols Dezenhall Communications Management who specialize in crisis management. These companies specialize in environmental "spin" management for chemical companies.

PESTICIDES LINKED TO LYMPHOMA
The report is the first-ever comprehensive review of worldwide research studies on the subject of lymphoma and pesticides.

WOMEN DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION AT DOW
Recent testing by the Centers for Disease Control also found breakdown products of a common pesticide, chlorpyrifos, in most Americans tested. Dow's Dursban is the most common chlorpyrifos product, accounting for more than 50 percent of the compound used.

Alameda County, California - County board calls for fewer pesticides
Citing that:  More and more people and studies are talking about the potential harm of pesticide use to human beings (Is Mr. Helliker listening... this is in his state?)

Fallen deputy to be honored on memorial - (Killed by "Registered" POISONS)
Florida Court in civil case rejected argument that Ethion wasn't harmful

Pesticide Waste Endangers Millions in Poor Nations
More than 500,000 tons of aging pesticide waste are seriously threatening the health of millions of people and the environment in nearly all developing countries, the United Nations world food body said on Wednesday.

DOCUMENTS SHOW PESTICIDE USE PUTS FISH AT RISK
Documents filed in federal district court show that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that pesticides harm fish, but has failed to take required action.

Dow Chemical's Nasty Little Secret
Agent Orange Dump found under New Zealand Town

Carpets harbour 'toxic dust'
... a typical sample of household carpet dust sent to an environmental lab contained high levels of heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides and polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs).