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Wall Street Journal
Bayer's Monsanto Purchase Could Offset European Regulatory Concerns
Wall Street Journal
The pesticide industry “has been deceiving the public for years that these poisonous chemicals are 'safe',” said Angeliki Lysimachou, an environmental scientist at the European division of the Pesticide Action Network, in an email. “The bigger the ...

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Drifting pesticides put neighboring farms at risk
Burlington Hawk Eye
Linda Wells, the Midwest director of organizing for the Pesticide Action Network, was glad to hear about the faster turnaround times and, if the department is committed to consistently providing the faster returns, that's a win. “It will make a ...

Drifting pesticides put neighboring farms at risk
DesMoinesRegister.com
Linda Wells, the Midwest director of organizing for the Pesticide Action Network, said that she was glad to hear about the faster turnaround times and that, if the department is committed to consistently providing the faster returns, that's a win. “It ...

TakePart
Big Ag Is About to Get Even Bigger
TakePart
“The corporate control of farming is already beyond anything we would have expected,” said Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist at the Pesticide Action Network. This mega-consolidation would “vastly limit farmers' choices and access to seeds as well ...

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Big Ag Is About to Get Even Bigger
Yahoo News
“The corporate control of farming is already beyond anything we would have expected,” said Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist at the Pesticide Action Network. This mega-consolidation would “vastly limit farmers' choices and access to seeds as well ...

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Enviros Oppose Policy Rider to Eliminate Spraying Permits
DTN The Progressive Farmer (registration) (blog)
... American Rivers, Clean Water Action, Southern Environmental Law Center, Environment America, San Francisco Baykeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Pesticide Action Network and Beyond Pesticides, ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune
Focus: Zika concern prompts second neighborhood spraying
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Susan Kegley, an organic chemist and pesticide toxicology expert who founded the nonprofit Pesticide Action Network of North America, said the active ingredients in this product are less concerning than in other mosquito-fighting concoctions such as ...

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KSTP.com
RAW VIDEO: Dance Performance Held to Raise Awareness of Declining Bee Populations
KSTP.com
Representatives of the U of M Bee Lab, Bee Atlas, Pesticide Action Network, Great River Greening, Prairie Restoration, Axdahl's Garden Farm, Prairie Moon Nursery and Pollinate MN were at the event. Additionally, members of dance collective MotionArt ...

KSTP.com
RAW VIDEO: Dance Performance Held to Raise Awareness of Declining Bee Populations
KSTP.com
Representatives of the U of M Bee Lab, Bee Atlas, Pesticide Action Network, Great River Greening, Prairie Restoration, Axdahl's Garden Farm, Prairie Moon Nursery and Pollinate MN were at the event. Additionally, members of dance collective MotionArt ...

KSTP.com
RAW VIDEO: Dance Performance Held to Raise Awareness of Declining Bee Populations
KSTP.com
Representatives of the U of M Bee Lab, Bee Atlas, Pesticide Action Network, Great River Greening, Prairie Restoration, Axdahl's Garden Farm, Prairie Moon Nursery and Pollinate MN were at the event. Additionally, members of dance collective MotionArt ...

Genetic Literacy Project
Food Democracy Now! "sustainability" NGO, anti-GMO
Genetic Literacy Project
FDN is part of the 2010 Food Sovereignty Alliance campaign in with Food First (Institute for Food & Development Policy), Farm Aid, Pesticide Action Network and Why Hunger demanding that the White House and Department of Justice “curb food monopolies” ...

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SF Weekly (blog)
Toxic Shock: The Monsanto Doctrine and GMO-free Farming
SF Weekly (blog)
... Hawaii County Council — some of the nation's leading food safety organizations (including the Center for Food Safety, Maui's SHAKA Movement, the Pesticide Action Network, and Earthjustice) stepped up to appeal the ruling to the federal appellate ...

Corporate Knights Magazine
Tracing the fabric
Corporate Knights Magazine
The Sustainable Cotton Ranking, commissioned by WWF, Solidaridad and the Pesticide Action Network, evaluated corporate performance based on their policies, traceability, and sourcing and use. “IKEA, C&A and H&M are showing how cotton sustainability ...

Timesonline.com
Environmental health hazards encountered each day
Timesonline.com
Pesticides have been associated with increased risk of cancer and can affect the developing nervous system. The Pesticide Action Network says close to a billion pounds of toxic chemicals are intentionally introduced into the environment and the food ...

Environmental health hazards encountered each day
Timesonline.com
Pesticides have been associated with increased risk of cancer and can affect the developing nervous system. The Pesticide Action Network says close to a billion pounds of toxic chemicals are intentionally introduced into the environment and the food ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune
Zika concern prompts second neighborhood spraying
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Susan Kegley, an organic chemist and pesticide toxicology expert who founded the nonprofit Pesticide Action Network of North America, said the active ingredients in this product are less concerning than in other mosquito-fighting concoctions such as ...

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ENDS Europe (subscription)
EFSA decision on pesticides exemption angers NGOs
ENDS Europe (subscription)
Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) issued a statement, calling the protocol a “scandal” and suggesting it was “a grave misuse of the rules”. It urged EU member states to reject the protocol, and took issue with the protocol's reference to ...

Manufacturer pulls methyl iodide fumigant from US market
Ventura County Star
"Arysta saw the writing on the wall and decided to pre-emptively pull cancer-causing methyl iodide off the shelves," said Paul Towers, spokesman for Pesticide Action Network, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the state's decision to ...