Oct 3, 2012
Marcia Ishii
The 411: Community watchdogs text for change
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Afraid or unsure of who to call about illegal pesticide spraying? Polluters beware: one California county may have found a solution.
The Kern Environmental Enforcement Network (KEEN) is an innovative tool that employs texting and web technology to expands the enforcement capacity of government agencies with the help of alert community members. KEEN enables residents to provide anonymous eyewitness accounts of local problems quickly and accurately, 24 hours a day in both English and Spanish. And it works.
Jul 18, 2012
Pesticide Actio...
Industry front group says: Don't worry, be happy!
As the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring approaches, the purveyors of Monsanto & Co’s falsehoods are out in full force.
The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) — a front group for the pesticide industry — held a briefing last week, announcing a new report extolling the virtues of pesticides to federal legislators. If this is where our decisionmakers are getting their information, we're in trouble.
Jan 24, 2012
Pesticide Actio...
Oct 17, 2011
Pesticide Actio...
Apr 7, 2011
Visitor (not verified)
Bayer caves - won't restart MIC production
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Institute, WV - This morning, March 18, in a “hastily called” court hearing, “Bayer CropScience lawyer Al Emch informed Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin that the company has decided not to resume production of the deadly chemical methyl isocyanate [MIC] at its Institute plant,” reports the Charleston Gazette. It was an MIC explosion that caused the 1984 Bhopal pesticide plant disaster.
Mar 18, 2011
Pesticide Actio...
Lawn care industry quashes screening of "A Chemical Reaction"
A couple months ago, corporate industrial ag interests in Minnesota attempted to pull the plug on the premier of Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story, a documentary about the impacts of input intensive agriculture on the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. It backfired, resulting a huge public outcry and a bigger audience for the film than it otherwise would have had. This week history appears to be repeating itself in Canada.
Dec 2, 2010
Karl Tupper