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Landmark Lawsuit Targets EPA’s Failure to Safeguard Species Around the Country in Its Oversight of More Than 300 Pesticides

www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2011/pesticides-01-20-2011.html

For Immediate Release, January 20, 2011
Contact: Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185
Heather Pilatic, Pesticide Action Network, (415) 694-8596

Landmark Lawsuit Filed to Protect Hundreds of Rare Species From Pesticides

Suit Targets EPA’s Failure to Safeguard Species Around the
Country in Its Oversight of More Than 300 Pesticides

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and [...]

New chance to stop toxic pesticide methyl iodide.

Please e-mail the EPA and get rid of this known carcinogen from our food chain! The United Farm Workers of California are trying to get the EPA to finally ban it.

Methyl iodide is so toxic and carcinogenic that scientists who use tiny amounts in the lab are required [...]