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National IPM News 2005
11/15/05 Three Rhode Island Organizations Awarded EPA Grants To Promote Healthy Communities & Environmental Education
EPA New England Press Release
(Providence, RI) - Two projects in Rhode Island were awarded grants supporting healthy, livable and safe communities, while another Bay State project won a grant for an environmental education initiative for elementary and middle-school aged students. The total EPA funding for the three efforts is nearly $70,000.
11/17/05 Pestering School Authorities About Pesticides
Cleveland Jewish News
Barry Zucker does not mind making a pest of himself.
And he does so repeatedly to raise awareness among parents and administrators in private and public schools about the dangers of the overuse of pesticides in their buildings.
10/30/05 Pesticide Law Compliance Lags in Area
The Boston Globe
Five years after laws were passed to protect children from pesticides, 70 percent of day care centers and almost 30 percent of schools, including many north of Boston, are not complying with all or part of the law, state records show.
Delta Farm Press
The Mid-South IPM Conference, for the men and women who provide advice to cotton producers, will be held at Agricenter International in Memphis, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. The program will begin on the morning of Nov. 1.
9/7/05 Parents Urge Schools to Start Year Without Toxic Pesticides
Pioneer Press Online-Glenview, IL
Parents from 30 states and the District of Columbia today called on school districts across the country to start the school year without the use of toxic pesticides that have been linked to childhood diseases.
4/24/05 Hotel industry wakes up to bedbug problem
The Wall Street Journal - SouthCoastToday.com
At the International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant trade show in New York, Mr. Schulz spoke at a symposium called "Stop the Spread of Bedbugs." The pamphlet advertising the event, printed by pest-control company Ecolab, promised a discussion of "the reasons behind the resurgence of these unwelcome pests."
4/22/05 UPMA Labs Offers Equipment to Assist with Scientific School IPM
PCT Online
UPMA Labs offers a variety of equipment to assist pest management professionals providing IPM services in schools and other sensitive environments.
4/11/05 Lawn Pesticides Uprooted Amidst New Lawn Season - 20 Consumer and Environmental Groups Ask Home Depot and Lowe's to Supply Poison-Free Products for Lawns and Landscapes
Response: CSPA Responds to Criticism of Lawn and Garden Products
(PRNewswire)
4/11/05 In California's Central Valley, pesticide fight heats up
USA Today
Across California's vast Central Valley, producer of a quarter of the nation's food and fiber, and in a growing number of other locales, pesticide exposure is causing alarm, and not just among the millions of farm workers on agriculture's front line.
4/11/05 Honeybees experiencing a mite of trouble
Casper Star Tribune - Associated Press
An explosion of varroa mites -- tiny, eight-legged spider cousins that can nibble honeybees and larvae to death -- endangers bees of the "Fruitway" along U.S. Highway 89 in northern Utah.
4/9/05 EPA Cancels Pesticide Study
Wired News - Associated Press
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.
4/3/05 Roundup® highly lethal to amphibians, finds University of Pittsburgh researcher
MedicalNewsToday.com
Pitt assistant professor of biology Rick Relyea found that Roundup®, the second most commonly applied herbicide in the United States, is "extremely lethal" to amphibians. This field experiment is one of the most extensive studies on the effects of pesticides on nontarget organisms in a natural setting, and the results may provide a key link to global amphibian declines.
3/29/05 City Commission to consider plan to rid parks of pesticides
Lawrence Journal-World - Kansas
Shistar...is among a group of residents pushing for Lawrence city commissioners to adopt a policy that would essentially ban by 2008 the use of all pesticides in the city's 52 parks, including at the Eagle Bend Golf Course.
3/24/05 Bill requires notice of pesticide spraying
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
Spraying pesticides near parks, government buildings and other public places would require public notification under a proposal in the Legislature. Pesticide manufacturers also would pay up to $120 to register the chemicals for sale in the state.
3/20/05 Risks of combined pesticide use uncertain
Palm Beach Post - Florida
Three chemicals used in Ag-Mart's Immokalee field have been shown to cause deformities in lab animals. It was in that field that three migrant farmworker couples say they worked during the first half of last year. Months later, between Dec. 17 and Feb. 6, all three women gave birth to children with serious birth defects.
3/7/05 Garlic-laced crops ward off insects
ABC News - Bangladesh
Insects dislike the smell of garlic as much as human beings do, according to a Bangladeshi scientist who has used it to develop an environment-friendly alternative to pesticide.
3/10/05 Integrated Pest Management a Must for Public Schools
Ag News - San Angelo, Texas
Did you know that all Texas public school districts must have an integrated pest management policy and plan? And that each district must have a trained IPM coordinator... the Southwest Technical Resource Center [is] to conduct four trainings across the state in the coming months.
3/8/05 IPM Associates Announces Heat Treatment Workshop
PCT Online
IPM Associates is planning a (Train-the Trainer) heat treatment workshop at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., March 23 - March 25th... for anyone considering utilizing heat for their operation instead of chemical fumigation.