PAN in the News

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 ...

The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
Center for Research on Globalization
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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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
Truth-Out
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 ...

Somewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog)
A Bee in Their Bonnet
Somewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog)
The target now is a widely used new class of safe pesticides – neonicotinoids – that Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, Sierra Club and other “socially responsible” groups are blaming for bee population declines in various countries. But the ...

Monsanto, Bayer, Sygenta Fund Bee Research
Environmental Leader
In March 2012, a group of beekeepers and honey producers, together with Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, International Center for Technology Assessment and Pesticide Action Network of North America, petitioned the EPA to immediately suspend ...

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A bee in their bonnet
WEBCommentary
The target now is a widely used new class of safe pesticides – neonicotinoids – that Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, Sierra Club and other “socially responsible” groups are blaming for bee population declines in various countries. But the ...

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Dirty dozen: The toxic world of fruits and veggies
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin
... produce items with the most pesticide residues, reports the Environmental Working Group. And the lettuce is scary too. The Pesticide Action Network ascertains that “90% of lettuce tests positive for 47 different pesticides and 57 different chemical ...

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Bees, pesticides, more green lies
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The target now is a widely used new class of safe pesticides – neonicotinoids – that Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, Sierra Club and other “socially responsible” groups are blaming for bee population declines in various countries. But the ...

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A Bee In Their Bonnet – OpEd
Albany Tribune
The target now is a widely used new class of safe pesticides – neonicotinoids – that Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, Sierra Club and other “socially responsible” groups are blaming for bee population declines in various countries. But the ...

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The Modified Arctic Apple: Bad News No Matter How You Slice It
Mother Earth News
According to the Pesticide Action Network's analysis of the most recent USDA data, apples tested positive for 42 pesticides, including organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides. Both are endocrine disruptors, both have suspected neurological effects ...

California Regulators Propose Restrictions of Soil Fumigant
eNews Park Forest
Additional evidence from a 2010 report released by the Pesticide Action Network of North American and local community members of Sisquoc, California, reveals that chloropicrin contaminated half of the 57 air samples collected, with average levels of ...

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Trouble With Bees Shows How Anti-Pesticide Groups Often Demonize Good ...
Investor's Business Daily
Nevertheless, four beekeepers and five activist groups (Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, Pesticide Action Network of North America, Sierra Club and Center for Environmental Health) have sued the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding that ...

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Dirty dozen: The toxic world of fruits and veggies
CANOE
And the lettuce is scary too. The Pesticide Action Network ascertains that “90% of lettuce tests positive for 47 different pesticides and 57 different chemical residues.” Yikes! According to Dr. Donese Worden, “plants aren't just coated with pesticides ...

Lawsuit launched against EPA
Farms.com
Several groups including the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claiming that the agency has failed to protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides. A spokesperson for the PAN said ...

WSU News
GMO Agriculture and Chemical Pesticides are Killing the Bees
Center for Research on Globalization
Said Paul Towers, spokesperson for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), one of the groups involved in the lawsuit: “Despite our best efforts to warn the agency about the problems posed by neonicotinoids, the EPA continued to ignore the clear warning ...
US approves new pesticides linked to mass bee deaths as EU enacts banRT

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Environmental Review to Delay Two Engineered Crops
New York Times
... the environmental impact statements would have. One environmental group, the Pesticide Action Network, applauded the delay. “Farmers across the country have been voicing their growing worries about these seeds, which have been designed to be used ...
USDA says more review needed for new Monsanto, Dow GMO cropsReuters AlertNet

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RT
US approves new pesticides linked to mass bee deaths as EU enacts ban
RT
Groups such as the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) have praised the continent-wide ban. Reuters / Heinz-Peter Bader. “The EU vote comes after significant findings by the European Food Safety Agency that these pesticides pose an unacceptable risk to bees ...
GMO Agriculture and Chemical Pesticides are Killing the BeesCenter for Research on Globalization

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Public concern influences delay of GE crops
Examiner.com
Monsanto and Dow seem to believe approval for the controversial crops is inevitable but opponents hope this is the first step in the ultimate denial of the crops. According to Paul Towers, a spokesman for the Pesticide Action Network, "[The] USDA is ...

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USDA says more review needed for new Monsanto, Dow GMO crops
Reuters AlertNet
"USDA is taking the issue...seriously," said Paul Towers, a spokesman for the Pesticide Action Network. "We're hoping that a thorough review... will ultimately result in denials." Monsanto issued a statement calling the development "unexpected," and ...

swissinfo.ch
New chemical controls agreed in Geneva
swissinfo.ch
Listing of a toxic paraquat formulation in the convention was blocked by Guatemala and India, according to a joint statement from the Berne Declaration, the Pesticide Action Network, IPEN and IUF. The Basel firm Syngenta produces a Paraquat product ...