PAN in the News

California Regulators Tighten Restrictions on Strawberry Fumigant ; Activists ...
Monterey County Weekly
Meanwhile, Monterey County's anti-pesticide Safe Strawberry Working Group is planning to hold community meetings to strategize around chloropicrin. “The proposed conditions don't go far enough,” Pesticide Action Network spokesperson Paul Towers says.

Mother Jones
Will Connecticut lead the way on GMO labeling?
Mother Jones
This trigger clause was meant to protect Connecticut businesses from being put at a competitive disadvantage and to keep the state from "going it alone," says Paul Towers of Pesticide Action Network. Towers called it "a cautious but important step." ...
Connecticut Passes First GMO Labeling Legislation In The Country: What ...Co.Exist

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PublicServiceEurope.com
Pesticides are a 'dead end' for bees and the environment
PublicServiceEurope.com
Therefore, we have sent around a letter - co-written by the European Beekeeping Coordination, Pesticide Action Network and Apis BruocSella - to the whole European Parliament. May 24 was a good day for bees and bio-diversity. The decision by the ...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe kritisch over functioneren Ctgb
GroeneRuimte.nl
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) heeft de kwaliteit van het werk van de Commissie toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (Ctgb) onderzocht. Aanleiding voor het onderzoek waren de opmerkingen van voormalig voorzitter ...

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Pesticide Action Network Europe kritisch over functioneren Ctgb
Agriholland (persbericht)
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) heeft de kwaliteit van het werk van de Commissie toelating van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en biociden (Ctgb) onderzocht. Aanleiding voor het onderzoek waren de opmerkingen van voormalig voorzitter ...

EFSA paves way for regulating endocrine disruptors in food
EurActiv
The Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) said EFSA had ignored the so-called "cocktail effects", underlining that the combination of many otherwise harmless chemicals in the human body can affect the endocrine system. PAN Europe contends that ...

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Around Town
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
In partnership with the Pesticide Action Network of Blaine County and through a generous donation from valley residents Brian Ross and Susan Reinstein, some 700 goats will work to eat up the early-season knapweed before it has a chance to go to seed.

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Connecticut Passes First GMO Labeling Legislation In The Country: What ...
Co.Exist
Paul Towers, the organizing and media director at Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), speculates that much of this momentum comes from California's Prop 37. He explains: "Prop 37 gave the food and farming movement a vehicle, ...

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Connecticut Passes First GMO Labeling Legislation In The Country: What ...
Co.Exist
Paul Towers, the organizing and media director at Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), speculates that much of this momentum comes from California's Prop 37. He explains: "Prop 37 gave the food and farming movement a vehicle, ...

Entomologists worry as US corn farmers unload their arsenal against stubborn ...
AgraNet (subscription)
Environmental groups say they saw the resistance problem coming, but Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist for Pesticide Action Network, tells P&CP "there is nothing sweet in being proven right here." Ishii-Eiteman says farmers "are now having to ...

Mother Jones
Rogue Monsanto Wheat Sprouts in Oregon
Mother Jones
As Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist of Pesticide Action Network of North America, put it in a statement, "once released into the environment, the GE genie does not willingly go back into the bottle." I'll be eagerly awaiting updates as the USDA ...

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Activists abuzz over Bayer's bee killing
People's World
Many beekeepers attended the demonstration, including Kathryn Gilje, co-director of the Pesticide Action Network, an international grassroots coalition fighting for environmentally sound alternatives to pesticide. She commented that while, in the hive ...

'People's Summit' seeks alternative to CELAC-EU, starts in conflict
Santiago Times
Lucía Sepúlveda, an environmentalist with the Pesticide Action Network (RAP-AL), was on stage giving a rousing speech as a members of the Carabineros, Chile's national police force, gathered in the street behind her. Login to read more. Twitter ...

Big Pharm Fallout
Honolulu Weekly
GE ag has contributed to dramatic increases in pesticide use because the crops are designed either to contain an insecticide or to be used with herbicides, says Dr. Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA).

Science World Report
Newly Discovered Gene Helps Honey Bees Find Food and Home
Science World Report
Honey Bee Haven reports that many bee bases are going extinct. In fact, since the mid-1990s, they've been dying off in droves, as colonies have been mysteriously collapsing with adult bees disappearing and abandoning their hives. The press release ...

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How to help vanishing honeybee
The Tennessean
Honeybees have been dying off in droves around the world since the mid-1990s, according to honeybeehaven.org – a collaboration of Pesticide Action Network and Beyond Pesticides. The term "colony collapse disorder" was coined several years ago after ...

The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
The Real News Network
Author Jill Richardson reports that these include "a number of chemicals named as Bad Actors by Pesticide Action Network." They include known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors and other toxins such as Alachlor, Acetochlor, Atrazine, Clopyralid, Dicamba ...

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Tuleyome Tales: Making your garden native bee friendly
Daily Democrat
At the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven in Davis, I was lucky enough to speak with Dr. Robbin Thorp about bee conservation and how we can all help to preserve the species that are native to our region... and I also got up close to some of the Teddy Bear ...

Huffington Post: Ignore the Environmental Activists
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog (blog)
Yet green groups, including Beyond Pesticides and the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), have filed suit against the EPA to ban neonicotinoids. (No, they haven't called for a return to the older pesticides neonicotinoids more efficiently replaced.) One ...

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Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California, Nation
CBS Local
It is bad news for the honeybees, said Paul Towers with the Pesticide Action Network. His group is one of several environmental groups suing the EPA, the agency that oversees pesticide use. “Honeybees are in peril. The Environmental Protection Agency ...