Current Campaigns
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Please send another free fax to India's Prime Minister! Your email action will generate a fax to India's Prime Minister, demanding that he meet with marchers who have been camped in Delhi for six weeks. Act Now »
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Tell Congress: National Parks are No Place for Pesticides! The U.S. National Parks Service released a study documenting extensive contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 20 western parks, damaging fish and threatening people and wildlife. Send a message to Congress »
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Tell FDA Lindane has got to go: EPA has stopped the use of lindane in agriculture, calling it "one of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever registered." Yet FDA continues to allow lindane use in shampoos used on children.
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Demand EPA ban chlorpyrifos: A CDC study showed 93% of people tested across the U.S. had chlorpyrifos in their bodies. In Lindsay, CA, PAN found that 91% of residents whose urine was tested had above average levels of breakdown products of the dangerous pesticide. Send a message to EPA NOW!
Recent Campaign Updates
- Tell EPA it’s time to ban endosulfan: On Feb. 19, more than 13,000 people submitted a petition to EPAs endosulfan review docket and EPA head Stephen Johnson, demanding that all uses of this old organochlorine pesticide be withdrawn. Read More »
Latest PANUPS
- Taking stock of Dow; Indoor air alarm; Vintners love bugs; Pesticide bans vs. yields; Hippos & lobsters; more...
(PANUPS - May 01, 2008)
- New paths for farming; Political pressure on EPA; Bhopal update; World Malaria Day; Ontario pesticide ban; and more...
(PANUPS - April 24, 2008)
- UN report backs ag revolution; NY lindane alert; WA investigates drift; Bhopal's 'sister' plant in US; and more...
(PANUPS - April 17, 2008)
