PCC public policy statements
Agriculture & farmland | Cooperative development | Food safety & irradiation | Genetic engineering | Meat & dairy | Nutrition | Organics | Pesticides | Seafood, oceans & water
Pesticides
September 1, 2007 — letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, urging it not to re-register toxic fumigant pesticides posing serious health risks to farmworkers.
March 20, 2007 — sign on to letter urging Washington's Governor, state representatives and senators to monitor air quality where agricultural pesticides are used and to encourage our agricultural land grant, Washington State University, to support safer alternatives to the most hazardous pesticides.
January 31, 2005 — to WSDA, Endangered Species Program, Re: Process for Evaluating Pesticides in Washington State Surface Waters for Potential Impacts to Salmonids.
May 29, 2001 — to WA State Dept. of Agriculture, Bridget Moran, Re: WA State Pesticides/ESA Task Force's Draft Process for Evaluating Pesticides in Washington State Surface Waters for Potential Impacts to Salmonids.
July 14, 2000 — to EPA, Office of Pesticide Programs, Re: Docket OPP-34225, urging EPA to cancel all uses of diazinon.