PANUPS: Poison in Cigarettes; Weeding without Chemicals and Other Pesticide News

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Poison in Cigarettes; Weeding without Chemicals and Other Pesticide News

May 12, 2006

 

PAN Article: Everyone now knows how dangerous tobacco is to our

health, but the hidden danger of pesticides used on tobacco gives

smokers another reason to quit. Though not surprising, there is

evidence that tobacco corporations are doing their best to keep this

information from the public.

http://ga4.org/ct/op1RIZS1OzWN/

 

Hawai'i: The Navy ordered a local Hawaiian construction company to

spread topsoil contaminated with the pesticide chlordane on the site

of a $50-million housing project located on the Marine Corps Base

Hawai'i at K & #257;ne'ohe. It will house families of junior enlisted

personnel. Chlordane has been banned for import in 95 countries, and

is illegal to use in the United States. KGMB TV reports on how one man

is speaking out.

http://ga4.org/ct/o71RIZS1OzWM/

 

Virginia: An angry high school student contaminated a school building

with the household pesticide malathion in revenge against school

administrators. Students and staff were evacuated as the school

scrambled to deal with the toxic poison, easily obtained at local home

and garden stores. Local tv station WBDJ reports.

http://ga4.org/ct/lp1RIZS1OzWx/

 

California: Applicators working in a citrus orchard sprayed pesticides

that are dangerous to humans even though they saw people working in a

neighboring Bakersfield-area vineyard, according to a report released

by the Centers for Disease Control. In the May 2005 incident, several

of the mostly female workers went into convulsions and many complained

of headaches, nausea and eye irritation. Read more.

http://ga4.org/ct/l11RIZS1OzW2/

 

Western United States: Researchers from Oregon State University, USGS

and US EPA have found agricultural pesticides in the otherwise

pristine winter snow at Mount Rainier, Sequoia and two other national

parks in Colorado and Montana. The pesticide residues found include

some of the older organochlorine pesticides now banned in the United

States, as well as the currently used pesticides chlorpyrifos, dacthal

and endosulfan. Researchers are studying the consequences for plants,

fish and wildlife in the park. Barbara Samora, a Mount Rainier

National Park biologist, told the The News Tribune of Tacoma, " We

thought these areas were pristine, and they're not. "

http://ga4.org/ct/l71RIZS1OzWs/

 

Oregon: Weapons of the Weed War. More gardeners are turning to

earth-friendly remedies and gadgets to wipe out weeds. Now that spring

has arrived, more and more people are rejecting the use of chemicals

on their gardens and using smarter methods to deal with weeds.

Oregon's Register Guard has the story.

http://ga4.org/ct/ld1RIZS1OzWw/

 

 

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