February, 2002

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   Memorial to the Poisoned  




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

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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

Challenge

CHALLENGE FROM STEVE TVEDTEN:
Demand Your Right To Be Free

EPA responds to Steve Tvedten's FOIA Request... On What is an Alternative to Registered Pesticide Poisons - He is hunting for answers! (See:  8-27 Posting)

Also:  Everyone should ask EPA to define the difference between an alternative and an unregistered pesticide. Steve

March, 2002 NEXT
02-25e EPA PROVIDES SUGGESTIONS FOR FORMATTING COMMENTS ON PRELIMINARY ORGANOPHOSPHATE CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT
02-25d Oregon:  Children's Health: Making the Connection to Environmental Pollution
02-25c Will The Reality Of Terrorism Cure Us Of Our Toxic Addictions?
02-25b

Cuba's Successful Organic Farms

02-25a EPA and other agencies accused of undertesting air at WTC
02-25 Unnatural Rejection? The academic squabble over Nature magazine's peer-reviewed article is anything but academic
02-24

Monsanto found liable for PCB pollution

02-23b Generation, Transport and Transformation of Pesticide Residues on Airborne Fine Particulate Matter Derived from Managed Soils
02-23a

We Are on Our Own - But There is Help

02-23 Countries to Have Discretion Over Import of More Chemicals
02-21a New VA Data Shows Deaths Ten Times Higher for Some Vets Exposed to Sarin
02-21 Pesticide Lawsuits and government control in the UK - Another Victim
02-20 Pesticide Lawsuits and government control in the UK
02-19a

Pest Control Industry Praised In Nationally Syndicated Column
02-19 Arsenic Wood Preservative Phased Out in U.S.
02-18c Cancer Causes - Are researchers and doctors downplaying environmental factors?
02-18b Lifestyle and Cultural Practices of Tribal Populations and Risks from Toxic Substances in the Environment
02-18a Biomarkers For The Assessment Of Exposure And Toxicity In Children
02-18 Illnesses Associated with Occupational Use of Flea-Control Products -- California, Texas, and Washington, 1989-1997
02-16

Daily News... Pesticide / GM News

02-14c

EPA UPDATE:  Proposed Tolerance Revocations

02-14b Pesticide Wars: The Solution Non-toxic Alternatives Exist -- If Public Demands Them
02-14a Pesticide Wars - When Agriculture and Public Health Collide
02-14 Collateral Damage In The Pesticide Wars 
The Troubling Story of Dr. Omar Shafey
02-13c Auckland - Government forced to find medical aide for victims of their Btk spraying
02-13b Pesticides:  Yesterday's "Solutions" Become Today's Problems
02-13a Can anyone help these innocent victims of chemical trespass? - EPA.. not their job
02-13

Whitman Announces Transition from Consumer Use of Treated Wood Containing Arsenic (as opposed to getting rid of this  danger to our children - ANOTHER PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE!)
02-12

EPA Reveals US Publicly Traded Corporations Hide Environmental Debt in SEC Filings to Shareholders
02-11b

Dermal Exposure and Risk Assessment

02-11a New WHO Textbook Released by The Institute of Environmental Medicine
02-11 Joint Meeting on Agent Orange Set for March 3-6 in Hanoi
02-09b

New Study Indicates Los Angeles Air Pollution Poses Twice the Cancer Risk to Children than Adults. - Report Shows Infants Receive Lifetime Exposure Limit in Two Months
02-09a Steve Tvedten believes this May help to explain some "Sound Science"
02-09

Chemical-illness link hard to prove

02-07

Chemicals and the Biological Boomerang
02-06b EPA RELEASES PRELIMINARY RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR LINDANE (does not include assessment of  the "medical" uses on children for head lice and scabies.)
02-06a

Poisoning Primer

02-06

Steve Tvedten... Nontoxic Avenger

02-05a New Central Hotline For U.S. Poison Control Centers - 1-800-222-1222
02-05 Deal Will (Eventually) Phase Out Popular Lumber
02-04a Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Petition for Review
02-04

WRC - Land Management - 1080 Poison.htm
02-03a Talks begin on removing wood with arsenic-based pesticides from market
02-03 How to kill weeds without killing yourself.........or be sued.........
02-01s Study: Pollution May Cause Asthma
02-01r

Environmentalists Urge Pesticide Fight over NAFTA

02-01q EPA ISSUES CANCELLATION ORDER FOR CHLORPYRIFOS PRODUCTS
02-01p LAWSUIT WILL CHALLENGE EPA OVER PESTICIDE (Fenthion) USE
02-01o Pesticide Action Network UK welcomes report from Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, but says it misses vital points on pesticides
02-01n

Pesticide Wars - When Agriculture and Public Health Collide
02-01l

State agency lacks authority to shut down polluters just because they owe money
02-01k

Pushing for Pesticide-Use Study

02-01j Silent Spring - Hundreds of dead birds rain down on town
02-01i Terrorists interested in pesticides 
02-01h Health impacts of pesticide exposure and approaches to prevention
02-01g

"Registered" Pesticide POISON Abuse - 

Ten Common Pesticide Infractions

02-01f

We’re Engulfed in Pesticides

02-01e Toxins blamed in Gulf illness - New committee refutes idea that stress is cause
02-01d About Pesticides / Alternatives Fact Sheet by Dr. Warren Porter
02-01c

Pollutants threaten inshore areas of Great Barrier Reef
02-01b Whistleblower faces health, financial problems Former Massachusetts state employee claims herbicide made him sick, cost him his job
02-01a

State moves to limit potent herbicide

02-01

Cancer Clusters In California

Jan.,  2002 PREVIOUS

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