Public Education to Help Your Community Take Action

In 2010 Beyond Toxics published “Protecting Health in Your Community: A Guidebook for Organizing for Pesticide Reform” for wide distribution. This primer focuses on pesticide issues and is tailored toward Oregon residents. It was developed in response to the many inquiries we receive from small communities struggling to find a solution to pollution and poisoning from large-scale pesticide applications (e.g., forestry, agriculture, right-of-way, public property and public housing contracts). Read the primer Community Organizing Guide.

 Beyond Toxics Reports

• Assessing Environmental Impact Quotients for Pesticide Use on State Highways in Lane County
• LAURELWOOD GOLF COURSE: Non-Compliance with the Integrated Pest Management Policies of the City of Eugene, Oregon
• Protecting Health in Your Community: A Guidebook for Organizing for Pesticide Reform
• WARNING! Hazards to Children: Pesticides in Our Schools

NEWS:

• NEW: The Triangle Lake chemical trespass story hits the national media: see the 10 min. video on PBS News Hour
• Jefferson Public Radio interview with Lisa Arkin (Feb. 8, 2012; opens up a separate browser window & plays an mp3 file)
• Read the latest reporting on atrazine (PR Watch article: “Atrazine: A Molecular Bull in a China Shop”) – Lisa Arkin, Beyond Toxics Exec. Director, interviewed…
• 6 Things You Should Know About the Triangle Lake Pesticide Investigation
  Jan. 5, 2012 Earthfix News Service (OPB)
• Officials to hear pesticide concerns
  Triangle Lake residents will meet with state and federal agencies
  BY SUSAN PALMER, The Register-Guard (July 12, 2011)
• State will investigate pesticide case
  A group presented proof that herbicides were found in the urine of residents in the Triangle Lake area BY SUSAN PALMER, The Register-Guard (June 13, 2011)

Other resources:

• Take action on pesticide reform
• Highway 36/Triangle Lake Area Exposure Investigation (background/history)
• On Jan. 10th, Beyond Toxics sent a letter to Jae Douglas of the Oregon Health Authority, officially requesting Forestry Pesticide Spray Records (PDF file)
• Read our pesticide exposure stories (tell us your own–send us an email!)
• Toxics Use Reduction in Your Home
• Beyond Toxics Fact Sheet

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