PAN in the News

Town Hall
A Bee in Their Bonnet
Town Hall
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 ...

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
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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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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Farm Futures
Environmental Review to Delay Two Engineered Crops
New York Times
That raised questions about what influence, if any, 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 ...
USDA says more review needed for new Monsanto, Dow GMO cropsChicago Tribune

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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 ...

USDA says more review needed for new Monsanto, Dow GMO crops
Chicago Tribune
"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 ...

Food Safety News
Differing Reactions to Colony Collapse in US and Europe
Food Safety News
Beyond Pesticides, the Pesticide Action Network North America, and the Center for Food Safety have petitioned EPA to request the bee-harming pesticides be removed from the market. With the new EPA-USDA report, a ban on those pesticides in the U.S. ...

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RedOrbit
European Commission Bans Three Pesticides For Two Years
RedOrbit
The launch came a month after beekeepers, Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides, and Pesticide Action Network North America filed a lawsuit against the EPA. “These toxic chemicals are being used without scrutiny in communities across the country, ...

EurActiv
BASF's university job sparks green fury over biased science
EurActiv
The Pesticide Action Network has accused the German chemicals company BASF of buying credibility for industry views within academia, after one of its employee was offered a professorship at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. BASF employee ...

New York Times
Pesticide Action Network Statement on USDA Honey Bee Report: More Inaction
eNews Park Forest
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--May 2 - Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report on honey bee health compiled from conference presentations last October. The conference and report follow widespread public attention to declining bee ...
US Links Pesticides to Honey Bee Deaths, but Resists BanInter Press Service
Feds blame combination of parasite, virus, bacteria, pesticides for strange ...Fox News
Valley beekeepers urge feds to do more research into bee deathsFresno Bee

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Farm Futures
Endangered Species 'Mega-Suit' Dismissed
PCT Magazine
The Mega Suit” (Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America v. Environmental Protection Agency) has been drawn out for a number of years, and has its roots in EPA's Endangered Species Act, which requires EPA to consult ...
Court Dismisses Pesticide 'Mega' LawsuitFarm Futures

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