On the frontline

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