Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America works to replace hazardous pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.
Latest Press Releases
- Senator Feinstein urges U.S. EPA to reconsider strawberry pesticide
(Press Releases - August 06, 2010)
- Groups Seeking Ban on Toxic Pesticide Go To Federal Court
(Press Releases - July 22, 2010)
- Washington State says no to methyl iodide
(Press Releases - July 15, 2010)
- International study documents pesticide health harms
(Press Releases - June 24, 2010)
- Report documents on-the-ground dangers of methyl iodide-type fumigant pesticides
(Press Releases - June 22, 2010)
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PAN in the Media
Enviro Groups Cheer as Scientist Bombards Agribusiness With Profane E-Mails
It sounds like fodder for a PR flap that might benefit the leading producer of the controversial herbicide atrazine: reams of explicit, taunting e-mails sent to company employees by a professor whose research on the health risks of their product had won nationwide notice. "This is straight out of big tobacco's PR handbook," said Pesticide Action Network North America spokeswoman Heather Pilatic. "The news Syngenta is trying to distract people's attention from, as we're heading into the fall and the tail end of EPA's review, is that atrazine is a serious contaminant."
readMORE» New York Times, 08/26/10
Toxic Pesticide Banned after Decades of Use
A farm chemical with an infamous history – causing the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America – is being phased out under an agreement announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. “After thousands of poisonings, it is mind-boggling that aldicarb is still in use,” said Steve Scholl-Buckwald, managing director of the environmental group Pesticide Action Network North America. “The wheels just grind so, so slowly. It never should have been registered in the first place back in 1970 and by the mid-1980s there was sufficient data to suggest it should have been taken off the market.”
readMORE» Scientific American, 08/18/10
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PAN Updates
- Final PANUPS farewell; Strong toxics bill addresses PBTs; Ecuador bans entire class of pesticides....
(PANUPS - July 30, 2010)
- PANUPS Adieu; WA says no to methyl iodide; EPA sued; Judge overturns Dole case; Atrazine a cancer concern
(PANUPS - July 23, 2010)
- White House ignores landmark cancer report; Europe restricts Monsanto; Syngenta in PR panic; Dole dirty deals in Nicaragua
(PANUPS - July 16, 2010)
- National Research Council report calls for sustainable ag; Sad end for NC Ag-Mart Case;
(PANUPS - July 09, 2010)
- Ecological ag in Global Food Security Act; Endangered bumblebee; Atrazine spike in Missouri; Historic pesticide protest in CA
(PANUPS - July 02, 2010)
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