Dear Alison,
Children in farming communities are on the front lines everyday because they live, play and learn near agricultural fields.
“Pesticides applied to these fields don’t stay put — they drift, vaporize, land in homes and on schoolyards – and current regulations don’t account for this on-the-ground reality”. Yet rural and farmworker kids face this reality everyday; they also live with more poverty and less healthcare than most of the rest of the nation.
*Here’s the good news»* [
http://action.panna.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2270 ] *If we can get EPA to act right now on three rule changes under consideration this week and next, thousands of kids will be protected.
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Thanks in part to our advocacy efforts with partners, EPA is currently considering three related actions that would go a long way towards addressing the realities of pesticide drift exposure in farming
communities: stronger buffer zones, better drift labeling, and updated risk assessments. Arcane? Yes. And meaningful, too.
*Join us in this push»* [
http://action.panna.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2270 ] *Urge EPA to do the right thing.* For the next few weeks, we’ll be joining partners in a broad push to publicize this historic opportunity to protect tens of thousands of our nation’s most at-risk kids from the lifelong hazards of pesticide exposure.
If we do this now, an entire generation will grow up with less childhood cancer, fewer developmental disabilities and a better chance at life.
Please join us.
[ https://www.panna.org/support ]
Dr Alison Bleaney
