[compost_tea] ALEC's Pesticide Preemption Act

From: Tim Kiphart <kiphart_at_ev1.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:54:23 -0600

>From SERC (State Environmental Resource Center <www.serc.org> )


ALEC's Pesticide Preemption Act
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate-controlled
advocacy group, is circulating legislation throughout the country that would
eliminate a local government's ability to control pesticide "registration,
notification of use, advertising and marketing, distribution, applicator
training and certification, storage, transportation, disposal, disclosure of
confidential information, or product composition." This legislation leaves
communities defenseless against the risks of toxic pesticide exposure from
unsafe application methods, poisonous ingredients, and genetic crop
modifications. Most alarmingly, the bill would even limit a community's
right to know about such risks. Keeping communities in the dark is part of a
system of pesticide regulation that ALEC calls "safe, effective, and
scientifically sound." We know better. For more information on this issue,
visit: http://pesticide.net/insider/insider.aspx. For more information about
ALEC's model bills, see: http://www.serconline.org/alecIndex.html.



 
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