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PAN Newsletter Spring 2025

This May, in Geneva, Switzerland, the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted the decision to list chlorpyrifos in Annex A of the Convention with time-limited specific exemptions, thereby agreeing to the global elimination of uses of this Highly Hazardous

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Rock park

PAN Newsletter Winter 2025

One of my favorite places to walk in the woods is Backbone State Park in Iowa. The good earth opens up, showing its bones in places—thus making it a difficult place for humans to till and plant. Often, when I walk there, I contemplate why

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carry-veggies

PAN Newsletter Fall 2024

For forty years, PAN has organized alongside those most harmed by the use of toxic pesticides. Together with farmers, farmworkers, rural communities, Indigenous peoples, and countless others, we have fought—and continue to fight—for a healthier and more just food system. We work to end reliance

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