Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

chemicals that will linger in carpets and other parts of the household for a year or more. Researchers found that 3 percent of ‘ ...

encourages the purchase of excessive amounts of pesticides. It is not legal to tell any- one that they can use a pesticide on a ...

pressure to have a perfect lawn, however, has clouded a number of issues and literally mixed ingredients that should be kept sep ...

applications by hired applicators. Concerns over the potential public exposure to these pesticides have led states to pass laws ...

Lawn Posting Problems Posting of lawns has been a controversial practice. Any successful posting program needs to address the fo ...

coughed continuously. That evening her husband, Wayne, and two children, Jeffrey, age seven, and Kara, age three, were afflicted ...

The public perception that no alternative to pesticide use exists is probably the greatest limitation that these efforts encount ...

This has fueled a high-stakes counterattack from the multibillion-dollar pesticide industry. Citing increased ‘‘activist threats ...

R. A. Fenske et al., ‘‘Potential Exposure and Health Risks of Infants Following Indoor Residential Pesticide Applications,’’Ame ...

23.Final Report: Nonoccupational Pesticide Exposure Study (NOPES) (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Protection Agency, Office of ...

42.Healthy Lawn Care for Healthy Communities(Montpelier, VT: Vermont Public Interest Research Group, n.d.). B. Dubey et al., En ...

Shawnee Hoover, ‘‘No Justice For Pesticide Victims,’’Pesticides and You24 (1) (2004): 9–10. D. B. Elgin,Public Awareness Study: ...

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Six Pesticides in the Air, Water, and Soil Pesticides in the Air Imagine this scenario: It’s two in the afternoon, and you’re at ...

Today, pesticides have been detected in the atmosphere throughout the country, and a wide variety of pesticides are present in a ...

individuals and sensitive sites to the pesticide application, the amounts of pesticide drift, and the toxicity of the pesticide ...

of production. Under rules to be spelled out on pesticide containers, the chemicals could not be allowed to drift on people, ani ...

Nor do organic farmers marketing produce grown free of chemicals get any special protections, causing problems for some farmers ...

used. The atmosphere is an important part of the hydrologic cycle that can transport pesticides from their point of application ...

Aerial Spraying Developments During aerial pesticide application, some of the applied material is lost to the atmosphere in the ...