Call in Support for Climate Change Legislation on June 22

Call in Support for Climate Change Legislation on June 22

June 19, 2015 | by | No Comments

On June 23, over 900 volunteers from Citizens’ Climate Lobby will be in Washington, DC lobbying their members of Congress to support legislation to address global warming. These volunteers are traveling from all across the US on their own dime to make the case for what they see as the best first step to a stable climate and a livable world, a revenue-neutral carbon tax (a tax placed on CO2 emissions that would return the revenue to American households as a monthly rebate check). This effort will leave a bigger mark with your help. Citizens’ Climate Lobby is asking people
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Categories: Uncategorized.
Citizens Climate Lobby Workshop

Citizens Climate Lobby Workshop

February 10, 2014 | by | No Comments

With the need for political will to address climate change growing ever more urgent, citizens are invited to gather in Lansing on Saturday, March 8 for a workshop that will launch new chapters of Citizens Climate Lobby. The event is sponsored by the Red Cedar Friends Peace and Social Justice Committee. Lynate Pettengill, Director of Field Development with Citizens Climate Lobby, will lead the three-hour workshop. Politicians do not create political will, they respond to it, says Pettengill. If we want Congress to address climate change, then they have to hear from us. The workshop is designed to give volunteers
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Categories: Climate.
New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators

New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators

August 29, 2013 | by | No Comments

CONTACT: Molly Hooven (news media only) Hooven.molly@epa.gov 202-564-2313 202-564-4355 Dale Kemery (news media only) Kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2013 New Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators WASHINGTON â?? In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present. Multiple factors play a role in bee colony declines, including pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking action to protect bees from pesticide exposure and these label changes will further our efforts,
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Categories: Bees and Pesticides.
Tags: bee labels, bee pesticides, bee protection, EPA bee labels, and pesticides.
EPA Expands List of Safer Chemical Ingredients

EPA Expands List of Safer Chemical Ingredients

August 6, 2013 | by | No Comments

CONTACT: Molly Hooven Hooven.molly@epa.gov 202-564-2313 202-564-4355 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2013 WASHINGTON: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) today added more than 130 chemicals to its Safer Chemical Ingredients List. For the first time, 119 chemicals that use fragrance for commercial and consumer cleaning products have been added to the list. Fragrances are an important yet complex part of many consumer cleaning products. By adding fragrance and other chemicals to the Safer Chemical Ingredients List, EPA continues its commitment to help companies make safer products and provide the public with greater access to chemical information, said James Jones, acting
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Categories: chemicals and Poison prevention.
EPA Moves to Ban 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Control Products

EPA Moves to Ban 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Control Products

January 30, 2013 | by | No Comments

Action Will Prevent Thousands of Accidental Exposures Among Children Each Year  WASHINGTON â?? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of 12 D-Con mouse and rat poison products produced by Reckitt Benckiser Inc. because these products fail to comply with current EPA safety standards. Approximately 10,000 children a year are accidentally exposed to mouse and rat baits; EPA has worked cooperatively with companies to ensure that products are both safe to use around children and effective for consumers. Reckitt Benckiser Inc., maker of D-Con brand products, is the only rodenticide producer that has refused to adopt
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Categories: Pesticides, Poison prevention, and Rodenticides.
Tags: children and pesticides, Mice, poison prevention, rat and mouse poisons, rodenticides, and Rodents.
Garlic Mustard: Destructive Weed or Healthful Herb?

Garlic Mustard: Destructive Weed or Healthful Herb?

October 10, 2012 | by | No Comments

Ann Cool, staff writer, Randall & Associates Publishing, LLC Depending on where you live the garlic mustard plant can be a pesky weed or a healthful herb. On this continent, garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), a member of the mustard family, is a weed that destroys neighborhood gardens, and threatens trailways and forests. In Europe, Asia and northwestern Africa, it is an herb that has culinary and medicinal uses. The plant is known by a variety of names–Jack-by-the-hedge, garlic root, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, Jack-in-the-bush, penny hedge and poor man’s mustard. Ever since it was introduced by settlers to the U.S. in
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Categories: Invasive Pests.
Tags: Garlic mustard, invasive plants, and weeds.
Randall & Associates Welcomes Ann Cool, Writer and Editor

Randall & Associates Welcomes Ann Cool, Writer and Editor

June 6, 2012 | by | No Comments

[subscribe2]Ann M. Cool, writer and editor has joined the staff at Randall & Associates Publishing, LLC. Ann is an experienced and skilled communicator. Trained in journalism and creative writing, she’s mastered everything from technical text to feature articles. Her versatility enables her to write and edit pieces for a retirement system by day and feature profiles for a local women’s magazine by night. As a technical staff writer, she’s written and edited marketing and educational publications for print and web. She’s also developed public relations materials for media. But writing and editing is only part of her story. In 1988,
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Categories: Staff update.
Tags: Ann Cool, Capital Aear Women's Lifestle Magazine, educational publising, Greater Lansing Business Monthly, Michigan Forestry and Park Association, and writer and editor.
EPA Seeks Additional Public Comment on Pesticide Sulfuryl Fluoride

EPA Seeks Additional Public Comment on Pesticide Sulfuryl Fluoride

May 2, 2012 | by | No Comments

On May 1, EPA published a Federal Register notice requesting comment on several issues raised during the 2011 comment period on the proposed tolerance revocation and stay request for the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride. Interested parties will have an opportunity to provide additional perspective and information on legal arguments raised during the previous comment period. EPA is also asking stakeholders to provide further information on the availability of alternatives and the potential impacts from the withdrawal of the sulfuryl fluoride and fluoride tolerances (legal residue limits on food). Sulfuryl fluoride is an alternative to the ozone depleting pesticide methyl bromide, and
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Categories: Pesticides.
Tags: methyl bromide, stored grain pesticide, and sulfuryl fluoride.
EPA Issues Stop Sale Order to DuPont on Sale and Distribution of Imprelis Herbicide

EPA Issues Stop Sale Order to DuPont on Sale and Distribution of Imprelis Herbicide

March 20, 2012 | by | No Comments

EPA Issues Stop Sale Order to DuPont on Sale and Distribution of Imprelis Herbicide WASHINGTON â?? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued an order to E.I. DuPont de Nemours (DuPont) directing the company to immediately halt the sale, use or distribution of Imprelis, an herbicide marketed to control weeds that has been reported to be harming a large number of trees, including Norway spruce and white pine. The order, issued under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), requires DuPont to stop the sale and distribution of Imprelis in the U.S. and outlines specific conditions to ensure
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Categories: Pesticides.
Tags: DuPont, herbicide damage, Imprelis herbicide, Norway spruce injury, and white pine injury.
RE: MINNESOTA RECORDS FIRST DEATH FROM TICK-BORNE (deer tick) POWASSAN VIRUS

RE: MINNESOTA RECORDS FIRST DEATH FROM TICK-BORNE (deer tick) POWASSAN VIRUS

March 20, 2012 | by | No Comments

Release Date: 11/02/2011 Contact Information: Dale Kemery (News Media Only) kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today took another step in the process to cancel 20 mouse and rat control products that do not adequately protect people, particularly young people, from exposure to toxic chemicals. EPA has determined that safer rodent control products are now widely available, effective, and affordable. The products EPA plans to remove from the consumer market are those that contain the most toxic and persistent active ingredients, products sold as loose bait and pellets and any remaining products without protective bait
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Categories: Insect pests and Uncategorized.
Tags: deer ticks and Powassan virus.