PAN in the News

Science 2.0
Serial Blind-Spot For Organic Advocates
Science 2.0
Steve, I'm confused because this Pesticide Action Network Europe Climate Change and Agriculture fact sheet disagrees quite a bit with what you are saying here. They say that 'agriculture is a major contributor to climate change. According to the ...

USDA Hits Pause on New Genetically Engineered Crops
Mother Earth News
By Pesticide Action Network June 11, 2013. Tweet. If approved, genetically engineered crops will drive a dramatic increase in pesticide use, placing the burden of both increased costs and health risks on farmers and rural communities. Photo By Fotolia ...

Une eurodéputée appelle à la maîtrise de l'alarmisme écologique
EurActiv
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe): Website · EFSA identifies risks to bees from neonicotinoids (16 Jan. 2013). Business & industry. European Risk Summit: Website; The European Crop Protection Association: Website; Copa-Cogeca: Statement ...

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MEP calls for parliamentary risk panel to tame green 'scaremongering'
EurActiv
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe): Website · EFSA identifies risks to bees from neonicotinoids (16 Jan. 2013). Business & industry. European Risk Summit: Website; The European Crop Protection Association: Website; Copa-Cogeca: Statement ...

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Pared-down lawsuit revives attack on EPA, pesticides
Capital Press
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have asked a federal judge to order restrictions on 50 pesticides, down from 382 in a previous lawsuit. The environmentalists claim that EPA has violated the Endangered ...

Let it bee, let it bee
Pacific Sun
... are at play in bee declines, including nutrition, pathogens and pesticides—with science increasingly pointing to pesticides, alone and in combination with other stressors, as a key catalyst," says Paul Towers, media director at Pesticide Action ...

Endangered Species Act Megasuit plaintiffs file amended complaint
Southeast Farm Press
2011, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Pesticide Action Network (Plaintiffs) filed suit against EPA for failing to consult with the Services regarding the effects of 306 registered pesticides on 216 endangered species throughout the United ...

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ESA Megasuit plaintiffs file amended complaint
Western Farm Press
2011, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Pesticide Action Network (Plaintiffs) filed suit against EPA for failing to consult with the Services regarding the effects of 306 registered pesticides on 216 endangered species throughout the United ...

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Huffington Post
Beekeepers Wanted
Huffington Post
"Science is increasingly pointing to pesticides, alone and in combination with other stressors, as a key catalyst," says Paul Towers, Media Director at Pesticide Action Network. "There is no silver bullet when it comes to protecting bees, and we should ...

Int'l Mission: Off-shore Mining Violates Fisherfolk's Right to Food and Livelihood
Bulatlat
Vince Cinches, executive director of the Central Visayas Fisherfolk Development Center, Inc. (FIDEC) and a delegate of the International Fact-Finding Mission sponsored by the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), revealed that in all ...

Farmers in Northern Mindanao rally for genuine land reform
Bulatlat
According to the Pesticide Action Network in Asia and the Pacific (PAN-AP) “global land grabbing” refers to “land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, being brokered in poor countries by advanced countries and their transnational ...

Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides
Honolulu Civil Beat (blog)
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have re-fild their legal complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address procedural issues, according to a press release. From the Center for ...

Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides
Honolulu Civil Beat (blog)
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have re-fild their legal complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address procedural issues, according to a press release. From the Center for ...

Documentary Exposes the Horrific Human Cost of the DDT Ban
The New American
Dr. Rutledge also attempted interviews with the EPA, the Pesticide Action Network, the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, other activist groups, and Ruckelshaus himself. Their doors were slammed in his face. Viewers see Dr. Rutledge's frustration ...

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Landmark Lawsuit Re-filed Against EPA to Protect Dozens of Endangered ...
eNews Park Forest
SAN FRANCISCO--(ENEWSPF)--June 6 - The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have filed an amended complaint in their ongoing efforts to protect the nation's most vulnerable wildlife from toxic pesticides. For two ...

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Landmark Lawsuit Re-filed Against EPA to Protect Dozens of Endangered ...
eNews Park Forest
SAN FRANCISCO--(ENEWSPF)--June 6 - The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have filed an amended complaint in their ongoing efforts to protect the nation's most vulnerable wildlife from toxic pesticides. For two ...

Landmark Lawsuit Re-filed Against EPA to Protect Dozens of Endangered ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America have filed an amended complaint in their ongoing efforts to protect the nation's most vulnerable wildlife from toxic pesticides. For two decades now the ...

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Monsanto Declares Defeat In European Market
Co.Exist
"I think it's a while before these companies back off because the current model of the pesticide industry is so intertwined with GE seeds," says Paul Towers, the organizing and media director at Pesticide Action Network North America. "Pesticide ...

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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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