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Pesticides in the News

CCAAPP News release on growing use of cancer causing pesticides
Vancouver Island Residents Defy Aerial Bt Spray
Farmworker Community Poisoned by Pesticide Drift (2/2000)
Town Humiliated in Pesticide Scare (11/99)
Study: 88% of schools use some toxic chemicals
Pesticide reeked of ‘dirty socks' (Following labeled directions on pesticides don't make them safe)
New Study Links Monsanto's Round-up to Cancer (are food supplies in danger??)(6/99)
Pesticide Disaster in Paraguay (6/99 )
Round-up Ready soya (genetically altered so more pesticides can be poured on them) testing in question (5/24/99)
Another government moves to ban the use of Lindane (4/15/99)
New Pesticide Poses Reproductive Risks to Birds (2/8/99)
Pesticides Sprayed on Passenger Airlines (1/20/99)
What's In Your Food? (1/20/99)
Air Monitoring Finds Toxic Pesticides Drifting From California Farm Fields (1/13/99)
What's Happening to frogs? (1/99)

Your Government at work (against you??)

Fluoridation and the A-Bomb
Troublesome inconsistencies in the federal regulation of pyrethrin-based shampoos
Bush Administration's Scorched Earth Policies and Players (5/2001)
Bush Decision to Withdraw Requirement that Ground Beef Purchased for School Lunch Program Be Free of Salmonella 4/5/2001
EPA will allow sale of banned pesticide (Dursban) for 18 months despite continued injury to children (6/8/00)
EPA reverses its views on the danger of Malation after meeting with manufacturer, Cheminova (manufacturer -1, citizens - 0) 5/14/2000
U.S. Lags in Toxicity Data - we must do more to protect our communities! (5/3/00)
Mayor Guliani announced newest plan to combat West Nile Virus (pesticides are included) (4/2000)
Florida: Gov. Bush a question of Ethics... Firing of Dr. Shafey who won't lie for the government.
Florida Dept. of Health changed report detailing injuries from MedFly spraying
Pesticides in Schools Data Sought (see SEPA story below, if the government is making these decisions they need help. They keep studying and kids keep getting sick and dying.)
Lobbyists' actions in the wake of a leak by the Environmental Protection
Agency illustrate a civics lesson on insecticide regulation (Don't you wish you were rich enough to own your own goverment???) (kids heath vs. pesticide producers = good-bye kids)
Cell Phone Nightmare (FDA fails public trust again)
Government Studying Pesticide Risks (A pesticide used on everything from lawns to pet collars is so pervasive that a majority of Americans, including children, face potential health risk)
School Environment Protection Act (SEPA) Introduced to Protect Children From Hazardous Pesticides Used In and Around Schools (dim hope is held for passage unless you help).
EPA drags feet on protecting U.S. Citizens (a little dixion and PCB is good for babies???) (6/99)
EPA ignores public and seeks opinion of chemical companies on pesticides in schools (parents are outraged) (3/17/99)
EPA Is Sued Over Gene-Altered Crops (AP 2/18/99)
Letter from a survivor of Woborn, Massachusetts - A CALL TO CIVIL ACTION (1/99)
EPA modifies pamphlet on pesticides - New York Times News Service (1/99)
E nvironmental Working Group resigns government committees (in protest?) (10/98)
Dam those Beavers correspondence between the government and Steve Tvedten

Companies that sell pesticides

Your Health

The Aspartame Epidemic - (marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful)
Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods Should be a Fundamental Consumer Right
About Mad Cow Disease by Dr. Michael Carlston
Undisclosed Carcinogens In Cosmetics And Personal Care Products Pose Avoidable Risks Of Cancer Warns Samuel Epstein, M.D. (1/2001)
Aspertame (as in Sweet and Low, Equal and most diet products - Murders Infants - Violates Federal Genocide Law By James Bowen, MD
Occupational Fatalities Associated With 2,4-Dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) Exposure, 1980--1998
Greener Pest Control in Schools (7/5/00)
Exposure Case Study - Available for More Than 20 Years, Pesticide Dursban Is Taken Off Market (6/21/2000)
Doctors Go on 'Strike' and Death Rates Plummet 6/20
Kids at Risk - Toxins in the environment linked to learning difficulties (6/00)
Parkinson's Linked to Pesticide use at Home (5/5/2000)
Calvin Klein's ``Eternity Eau de Parfum´´ ingredients are toxic to the skin, lungs, reproductive system and more (2/14/00)
High Asthma Incidences in American Cities are caused by PESTICIDES not COCKROACHES
Ill Gulf War vets have brain damage, research indicates (12/1/99)
Man Details Breast Cancer Fight (1998)
Pesticides May Harm Brain, Study Says - L.A. Times (3/15/99)
Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides
Over-the-Counter Herbicides Pose a Significant Threat of Soft-Tissue Sarcoma, Leukemia and Lymphoma
Living Life in a Cancer Cluster Parents and Children Looking for Answers - ABC News (2/4/99)
Immunotoxic Effects of ("registered") Dursban - study from USC
Open Letter to EPA from National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (1/28/99)
States Do Not Protect Children from Pesticides Used in Schools (2/2/99)
Testicular Cancer ABC News Report (1/25/99)
Warnings expected on chemicals ("registered" poisons) that may cause birth defects. (10/11/98)

Good News About Alternatives

California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Upward Trend in Dangerous Pesticide Use Continues in California (7/99) DPR - Their own numbers tell us we're buried in pesticides
DPR becomes "police force" to protect the pesticide producers 6/99
DPR's testing shows families are being poisoned
Email from California Pest Control Operator admits that soap and water better than pesticides
Since June, 1998 questions have been posed to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation regarding pesticide use in California.

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