October, 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 the pesticide poison industry.  The town of 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 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
November, 2002 NEXT
10-31i

Another Town Removes Cosmetic Pesticides

10-31h

EPA Announces New Aging Initiative To Protect Older Persons From Environmental Health Threats

10-31g

Spraying Under Review
10-31f DA Blasts Odom's Request That He Be Taken Off Case
10-31e Is School Making Your Child Sick?
10-31d Motels For Dow Spray-Affected Residents Expected To Top $1M
10-31c

Atrazine - Common Herbicide Frog Gender Bender

10-31b Another Plea For Sanity (Less POISON) 
10-31a Researchers Say Lice Shampoos (POISONS) Ineffective
10-31

Contaminants found in the tap water in California

10-30g

West Aucklanders Reel From BTK Laden Planes
 
(Yet the government continues to spray)
10-30f Man Hit With Huge Bill After Mishandling Radioactive Cat Waste
10-30e

People's Food Sovereignty Network Launched
10-30d

Not Everyone Follows The Rules For Pesticides
10-30c U.S. Suspects Opiate in Gas Used in Theater
10-30b Schools Learning To Keep Pests Away Without Toxins
10-30a Stronger Breed of Head Lice Survives
10-30

Herbicide Weeds Out Mice In The Womb
10-29e

Toxic Pesticide Killing Wildlife, Suit Charges
10-29d The Perfect Potato
10-29c

Bayer Cropscience Sells Insecticides
10-29b

Health Canada Agency States . . . Used As Directed, Pest Control Prodcuts Are Safe. 

10-29a Pesticide Bans Are Backed By Common Sense
10-29 How safe is Frankenfood?
10-28d New Project Launched To Assess Environmental Health Issues Of American Indians, Alaskan Natives
10-28c Odom Wants Prosecutor Off Case
10-28b Quebec: Pesticide Sales Gradually Decline
10-28a More Than One In Four U.S. Bird Species Is Declining
10-28

EPA Rule To Allow Hazardous Wastes To Be Used In Fertilizers
10-24d Whistling Past The Environment And Chemical Cleanups Too Slow, Report Says
10-24c Toxic Fertilizers Challenged by Lawsuit
10-24b California Urges Study Of Alarming Breast Cancer Rates
10-24a Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides, and Radiation Cause Breast Cancer
10-24 The Pesticides Challenge: A Conference to Promote Safer Pest Management
10-23c

Monsanto Drops Pursuit Of Genetically Engineered Lawn Grass (Roundup Ready lawns... what are they thinking? ()
10-23b Lawsuit Challenges Klamath Basin Pesticide Use
10-23a Pesticide Agency Slammed By Federal Environment Commissioner
10-23

Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides, and Radiation Cause Breast Cancer... While Wealthy Non-Profits and Feds Protect Industry
10-22d Going Organic?
10-22c Score One For You Mr. Helliker!!!!!!!!!
10-22b

Federal Register Notice Announces Voluntary Cancellation Of All Product Registrations For Fenamiphos

(Of course, Bayer gets 5 years to continue to manufacture and sell this dangerous poison.)

10-22a Spraying POISONS To "Control" WNV
10-22 Mutant head lice are a growing problem - BBC World News
10-20a 'The Nature of Things - Up Close and Toxic'
10-20 Two Interesting Autism Comments
10-19c Scientists Baffled By Increase In Autism In California
10-19b Agriculture And Forestry Agents Test Local Malathion Supplies
10-19a Forging a Science for the People
10-19 Pesticide Kills One, Makes 10 Ill In German Church
10-18b Increase in Autism Baffles Scientists
10-18a Cosmetic Pesticides
10-18 Pesticide Opponents Gear Up For Forum
10-17d New Statistics Show Increase, Not Decline, in Cancer Rates
10-17c

Moth sprayers absolved of legal liability

10-17b THE ACCIDENTAL CRUSADER
10-17a Men risk having children with defects - Damaged sperm
10-17

CDC - Malathion Responsible for More than 200 Illnesses

10-16c

2002 Annual National Forum on Contaminants in Fish

10-16b IN THIS EPA UPDATE
10-16a Pesticides causing the most human ill health and environmental disturbance should be restricted
10-16 Dumped drums tied to deadly herbicide
10-15g Medicos, NGO Meet Calls for Pesticide Ban and Review
10-15f Spraying Dursban For Mosquitoes
10-15e

COMMENTS REQUESTED FOR EPA STRATEGIC PLAN REVISION

10-15d

EPA Accused Of Bowing To Dow

10-15c Time To Phase Out Paraquat - Syngenta's Controversial Pesticide
10-15b

Pesticide Use - Incomplete Knowledge No Excuse

10-15a IN THIS EPA UPDATE
10-15 RISE Meeting Notes Anti-Pesticide Strategies
10-14

Change in Students' Diet - A Miracle in Wisconsin

10-05

Read Why Other Cities and States Do Not Spray Pesticides for WNV

10-01a

Biologists Poison Lake To Save It

0-01 Scientists Warn After Finding Pesticide Resistance Gene 

September, 2002

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