[CC] TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:02:12 GMT
From: Earthjustice Alerts <action at earthjustice.org>
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To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
Subject: TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides

TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides
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Dear Alan,

Luis Medellin and his three little sisters -- aged 5, 9 and 12
-- live in the middle of an orange grove in Lindsay, CA -- a
small farming town in the Central Valley. During the growing
season, Luis and his sisters are awakened several times a week
by the sickly smell of nighttime pesticide spraying. What
follows is worse: searing headaches, nausea, vomiting.

The Medellin family's story is not unique. From apple orchards
in Washington to potato fields in Florida, drifting poisonous
pesticides plague the people who live nearby -- posing a
particular risk to the young children of the nation's farm
workers, many of whom live in industry housing at the field's
edge.

That's why we've petitioned the government to set safety
standards protecting children who grow up near farms from the
harmful effects of pesticide drift -- the toxic spray or vapor
that travels from treated fields. We're also asking officials to
immediately adopt no-spray buffer zones around homes, schools,
parks and daycare centers for the most dangerous and drift-prone
pesticides

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TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/pesticides_1209/iw67be54f7jtm3jj?#startform

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These protections could make a big difference for children where
you live!

In the past, the EPA has not made this issue a priority --
ignoring a law Congress passed that requires the agency to
protect children from all exposures to pesticide, including
pesticide drift. The agency is already three years overdue in
setting safety standards that protect kids from drift.

Will you add your voice to those calling for a change? Let
agency officials know that they can't let another growing season
go by without action! Thank you.

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TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Children From Toxic Pesticides

http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/pesticides_1209/iw67be54f7jtm3jj?#startform

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