April, 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
Steve Tvedten's FOIA Request CHALLENGE FROM STEVE TVEDTEN:
Demand Your Right To Be Free  He is hunting for answers! (See:  8-27 Posting)
Steve Tvedten responds to Medicis Pharmaceutical's Attorney Is Ovide's active ingredient, Malathion, safe, effective and not a poison?
FREE BOOK on ALTERNATIVE PEST CONTROL The Bug Stops Here by Stephen Tvedten
May, 2002 NEXT
04-30e Comment on: Cancer Division Accused Of Hiding Dangers Of Cosmetic Pesticides
04-30d

Pennsylvania limits use of pesticides in schools

04-30c EPA Settles Pesticide Lawsuit
04-30b More protests over 1080 predicted
04-30a IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
04-30 Cancer Division Accused of Hiding Dangers of Cosmetic Pesticides
04-29b New protest over 1080 drop
04-29a GM Safety Tests 'Flawed'
04-29 Hundreds "Terrified" and rightfully so! Tull USA is poisoning them!
04-28d

Sozinho Dairies Pay $140,000 to Settle Contempt Complaint
04-28c Report Estimates Pollution from Eight Utilities Leads to Nearly 6,000 Premature Deaths Yearly
04-28b Global Network for the Monitoring of Chemicals in the Environment
04-28a BBC HEALTH: The Immune System
04-28 Americans are increasingly cautious about everyday toxic hazards
04-27b

Please Help Stop Forced Pesticides on California Properties

04-27a

September 11th Environmental Hypocrisy
04-27 Judge upholds cleanup of pesticide operation
04-26a Child Laborers at Risk in Ecuador
04-26 Vegetables in pesticides scare
04-25a Pesticide Usage on Golf Courses
04-25

Pesticide Contamination In Humans Has Been Confirmed
04-24n Time to stress cancer rates among the young
04-24m Gonads And Endocrine Disruptors
04-24l

Waiter, There is some "registered" POISONS in my food

04-24k UPI article about pretreating homes with pesticide poisons
04-24j EPA Revises Relative Potency Factors for the Cumulative Risk Assessment
04-24i Are golf courses hazardous to our health?
04-24h Study finds DDT may spur disease
04-24g Brain damage feared
04-24f EPA to Review Pesticides' Effects in California
04-24e  Environmental agency settles pesticide lawsuit over endangered species
04-24d EPA set to probe pesticides suspected of being harmful
04-24c EPA Ombudsman Resigns Over Job Shift
04-24b

Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah

04-24a HSE Press Release E07602
04-24 Time to phase out paraquat
04-21a Insecticide ban amid cancer fears
04-21 Pesticide Warnings Ordered
04-20g Corrected URL's
04-20f Pesticide link to Parkinson's probed
04-20e Gap in Sales For Largest Agrochemical Companies Has Narrowed
04-20d

Ignoring Causes (and Alternatives) Highly Profitable

04-20c

Is it just another federal law you simply ignore?

04-20b Toxic Raisins Raised No Alert
04-20a The Clean Water Act permit requirement
04-20 EPA Takes a Hands-off Approach to Herbicides in Water
04-19e Sodium Acifluorfen Risk Assessments Released
04-19d

Changes made to encephalitis lawsuit

04-19c WHO targets environmental impact on child health
04-19b

Two Efforts Seek to Halt Pesticide Use

04-19a EPA to Consult on Pesticide Harm to Endangered Species
04-19 Abita Springs residents defend themselves against government pesticide spraying for mosquitoes
04-18c

Industry Targets EPA Data Quality

04-18b

Monsanto Canada and Aventis CropScience GMO contaminating Organic Canola in Canada
04-18a New Zealand... venison tainted with 1080 rat poison
04-18 Pesticide Hazards Lurk in Newly Built Homes
04-17a More than 100 landowners sue DuPont, file claim against BLM
04-17

Tea and Pesticides - Toxic Blend

04-16c Environmental factors should be linked to health care
04-16b

Pesticide blamed for sexual mutation in frogs
04-16a

Monsanto Says Crops May Contain Genetically-Modified Canola Seed

04-16

California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation  Prohibits Residential Use of Clopyralid in California
04-15k EPA UPDATE
04-15j Comments made by MPs in the House of Commons on April 8th & 9th relating to the full implementation of the precautionary principle
04-15i 'New' pesticides affect immune system, study finds..
04-15h

Eric Schaeffer's resignation letter from EPA 

04-15g Pesticide Chemical Leaves Immune System Helpless
04-15f Links between breast cancer and pesticides
04-15e Parent pressure against pesticides - Groups urge action at daycares, schools
04-15d Board favours ban on garden sprays - Bylaw targets pesticides
04-15c Pesticides Harming Endangered Frog, Suit Charges
04-15b

WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) Harms Small Farmers

04-15a

Good News for the Pesticide Industry

04-15 ETHION CANCELLATION ORDER PUBLISHED
04-05c

Bill C-53, the Pest Control Products Act

04-05b

The Story of Agent Orange - It is the war that will not end.
04-05a

1984 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster

04-05

DOC wiping out pest fish

04-04b

Natural-yard plan moving at a nice clip

04-04a

Homeowners bid farewell to pesticides
04-04 Tests show 30% of Fang residents' blood highly contaminated
04-03e

Deadly smoke from burning pressure-treated wood

04-03d Island County joins Jefferson , Thurston, Clallam, San Juan and Snohomish in stopping roadside herbicides
04-03c

Chemical POISONING program

04-03b Japan scandals rich pickings for organic exporters
04-03a Toronto Public Health - Pesticide literature review
04-03 Alternatives Journal - Children's Health - Winter 2002 - Volume 28, Number 1
04-02 Sick Agent Orange vets owed benefits, rules U.S. court
04-01a IN THIS EPA UPDATE - EPA to continue enforcement of pesticides in irrigation
04-01

Girl Dies After Eating Small Amount of Lindane Ant Powder
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