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Groups Release Report on Agri-Business and Endangered Atlantic Salmon: Board of Pesticides Control to Hold Hearing on Banning Aerial Spraying 3/29/2006

New Report Finds Power Plant Mercury Emissions Low in Maine, High Upwind: New analysis of recently released Toxics Release Inventory mercury emissions 9/08/2005

Mainers Sick of Catching the Drift: Citizens Launch Efforts to Strengthen Protections Against Dangerous Pesticides 8/16/2005

Environmental Health Actions

Stop pesticide industry exemption in Congress

Environmental Health Reports

Made in the U.S.A.: Power Plants and Mercury Pollution Across the Country 9/08/2005

Catching the Toxic Drift: How Pesticides Used in the Blueberry Industry Threaten Our Communities, Our Water and the Environment 8/16/2005

Environmental Health In The News

Hazardous waste cleanup program must be funded 9/19/2006

Hearing stirs barely a flutter on new moth law 7/24/2006

Throwaway Fish 7/18/2006

Environmental Health Testimony

LD 1658: An Act To Protect Pregnant Women and Children from Toxic Chemicals Released into the Home 4/05/2007

Amendments to Chapters 22, 28 and 40: Reduce toxic pesticides in our environment, reduce pesticide exposure and make it easier for people to know about pesticides applied in their neighborhoods 4/10/2006

LD 1968: Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management Funding 2/08/2006

Proposed Chapter 26: Reduce exposure to pesticides 9/09/2005

LD 1256: Providing specific information to the public about pesticide use in their communities 4/11/2005

Additional Links

Maine Board of Pesticides Control
(www.maine.gov)

Pesticide Action Netwok North America
(www.panna.org)

Mercury Policy Project
(www.mercurypolicy.org)

NESCAUM - The Clean Air Association of Northeast States
(www.nescaum.org)

U.S. Geological Survey
(water.usgs.gov)

Department of Health and Human Services
(www.maine.gov)

SouthEast Alaska Conservation Council
(www.seacc.org)

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN

Reducing Pesticide Exposure Stop Aerial Spraying No More Mercury