Pesticide Reform Bill Reintroduced in U.S. Senate, Advocates Call Changes...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 7, 2023) U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced legislation last week to increase protections against exposure to toxic pesticides. The Protect America’s Children...
View ArticlePesticide Industry Lobbying Congress with Misinformation to Prohibit Local...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 4, 2023) The pesticide industry focused the entirety of their “legislative day” late last month on an effort to roll back local democratic decision making and implement...
View ArticleTake Action: Local Authority to Restrict Pesticides under Threat of Federal...
(Beyond Pesticides, May 8, 2023) The Farm Bill in Congress covers many areas—ranging from the supplemental nutritional assistance program (SNAP) to trade—and the pesticide industry would like to insert...
View ArticlePesticide Lobby Pushes Farm Bill Amendment to Strip Localities and States...
The introduction of the Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, expected to be a part of the Farm Bill negotiations, is raising the specter (yet again) of undermining...
View ArticleTake Action: Pro-Pesticide Lobby Attacks Local Democratic Process to Protect...
(Beyond Pesticides, July 10, 2023) [Editor’s note to readers: The local, democratic decision-making process to adopt restrictions on pesticide use, now under attack in Congress, has historically been...
View ArticleGrassroots Power, Democratic Process, and Organic—Pillars of Transformative...
(Beyond Pesticides, July 17, 2023) Students of environmental policy quickly learn that the most meaningful change to protect health and the environment begins with action in local communities. The...
View Article“Legalized Poisoning of 5,500 People” Message Highlights Controversy Over...
(Beyond Pesticides, September 5, 2023) Lincoln County, Oregon community members are fighting a plan announced by a private landowner to aerially spray 473 acres of clear-cut forest over the Beaver...
View ArticleUrgent Action—Will Congress Defend Communities’ Right to Protect Public...
(Beyond Pesticides, October 13, 2023) Will the chemical industry and pesticide-dependent service industry (e.g., conventional landscaping industry) trample democratic rights and force the allowance of...
View ArticleCrusade for Local Democracy; The Saga of State Preemption Continues Into 2024
(Beyond Pesticides, January 23, 2024) Earlier this month, a coalition of over 140 local and state elected officials from over 30 states sent a letter to ranking members of the House and Senate...
View ArticleBayer/Monsanto in Roundup/Glyphosate Case Stung with Largest Multi-Billion...
(Beyond Pesticides, February 23, 2024) The latest string of billion-dollar plaintiff judgments against Bayer/Monsanto, the maker of Roundup™ with active ingredient glyphosate, does not yet signal a...
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