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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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Action Network Email r1 Enough is enough. We’ve all known for years that the pesticide industry has too much influence on public officials. But now, corporate lobbyists are literally being handed the reins to the agencies tasked with protecting the public from the harms of thei ...

Help stop the chemical industry takeover of public agencies

Dear PAOV,

Enough is enough.

We’ve all known for years that the pesticide industry has too much influence on public officials. But now, corporate lobbyists are literally being handed the reins to the agencies tasked with protecting the public from the harms of their products. This is wholly unacceptable.

With your help, we’re ramping up our challenge to this corporate collusion. Can you make a donation to support PAN’s work, today?

The scope of corporate influence is now in the open for all to see. Last week, release of the book Whitewash highlighted Monsanto’s behind-the-scenes campaign to keep their flagship herbicide — RoundUp — on the market.

Then on Sunday, the New York Times published an expose of the chemical industry’s takeover at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including how Dow Chemical effectively stopped the planned ban of its brain-harming insecticide chlorpyrifos, and how lobbyists for the American Chemistry Council are being placed in key decision-making posts.

This is wrong. And we’re fighting back, hard — in court, in the media and by mobilizing public pressure on policymakers from the grassroots up.

Your gift today makes us stronger in this fight, and helps ensure long-lasting change.

Until she left the agency last month, Wendy Cleland-Hamnett was the top official at EPA overseeing pesticides and toxic chemicals. Here’s what she told the New York Times about the agency's controversial chlorpyrifos reversal:

“It was extremely disturbing to me . . .The industry met with EPA political appointees. And then I was asked to change the agency’s stand.”

Also over the weekend, news broke that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt directed agency scientists not to speak on climate change at a long-planned event.

Muzzling scientists? Appointing chemical lobbyists? It’s just not right.

As you know, PAN is in this work for the long haul. We’re here to remind policymakers that our public agencies work for all of us, and that their job is to protect public health, not to ensure industry profits.

Thank you for being in this fight with us.

Warmly,

Kristin Schafer
Executive Director, PAN

Pesticide Action Network North America
Berkeley, CA | Minneapolis, MN
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