December, 2001

Letters / Articles and Information sent to the Environmental Protection Agency and Departments of Pesticide Regulation

(Just in case they weren't listening to everybody else)

About the Precautionary Principle




The government can no longer claim ignorance or the need to "study" its citizens to death.

[Archives and Search ] * [ Memorial to the Poisoned ]

Date Sent Subject
Jan., 2002 NEXT
12-31a

Toxic Threats to Neurologic Development of Children 
12-31 Societal Costs of Exposure to Toxic Substances: Economic and Health Costs of Four Case Studies That Are Candidates for Environmental Causation 
12-30

Pesticide-laced muck farms caused lupus - Lake Apopka
12-29b

Louisiana DOA Out of Control? 

12-29a Research Grows.. Pesticides:  Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Specific Pesticide Exposures in Men; Mechanism of inhibition of lysyl hydroxylase activity by the organophosphates malathion and malaoxon; Cytogenetic studies on the effect of feeding mice with stored wheat grains treated with malathion
12-29

Traces of a herbicide toxic to garden vegetables has been found in compost in three states
12-26a Cleaner Air Improves Children's Lung Function
12-26

Hispanic Farm Workers at Risk for Some Cancers
12-24

"Gender-bending" chemicals disrupt plants too
12-22a The Global Scope of Chemical Exposures in our 21st Century Environment: Indoors and Outdoors
12-22

Does the EPA really plan to change label requirements? (Now no one will know what's killing them.)
12-20d Profit or Pain - Guess Which One They Choose
12-20c Union Carbide Corporation, Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation and United Water Resources Inc. settle with families but deny responsibility
12-20b

New Report Finds That Bt Corn Doesn't Pay

12-20a

Toxic Threats to Neurologic Development of Children 
12-20

HEALTH HAZARDS FROM FLEA AND TICK PRODUCTS

PARENTS CAN HELP PROTECT CHILDREN FROM TOXINS

12-14 EPA Requests National Academy of Sciences Input on Consideration of Certain Human Toxicity Studies
12-13a Pesticides and congenital malformations - how many studies will it take to reach a conclusion? 
12-13 California Vineyard sprays expensive pesticide.
12-12a U.S. Reports Disease Link to Gulf War
12-12

Vietnam Veterans - Agent Orange Suits Still Viable, 2nd Circuit Says
12-11b Gee, thanks Dow.... Compost Contaminated with Clopyralid
12-11a

Lindane:  Ottawa faces suit over banned pesticide - U.S. chemical maker uses NAFTA section (Can the US force a country to purchase poison?  Profits before People!)
12-11 Pesticide testing on humans denounced by physicians and environmentalists
12-10

The "legal" Killing of The Innocent

12-09

US Secretly Tests First Genetically-Modified Insect 
12-08e Morbidity among farm workers in a desert country in relation to long-term exposure to pesticides
12-08d

Audits and Obstruction

12-08c Could the Head of the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Possibly Be Wrong?
12-08b Endocrine disrupters and human health
12-08a WORLD-WIDE NO USE OF PESTICIDES DAY MARKED IN PERU
12-08

NAFTA - Harmonization Proposal 

US / CANADA Pesticide Harmonization escapes most comments

12-07a

Pesticides are not in God's design

12-07

SEPA defeated by Republicans and now "they" can continue to KILL us without warning!
12-06e STATEMENT OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENT TO ESEA
12-06d

Lawn company to pay $250,000 for pollution clean up
12-06c

FARMERS CLOSE DOWN MONSANTO OFFICE!
12-06b Dangerous combinations of pesticides on food
12-06a December 3, 2001 International no pesticide use day.  Observed by Minister of Kerala, India
12-06 Steve Tvedten's (Get Set, Inc.) Nontoxic Intelligent Pest Management Program Only Highlight in Pesticide Use in Schools Report
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