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Greetings!
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February is a critical time for the Maryland General Assembly and the various environmental bills our Smart on Pesticide Coalition is working on. Please join us by letting your legislators know how you want them to represent you on the following issues we assume you share our concerns about.
In Maryland
 Overriding Governor Hogan's veto of a 2020 bill banning the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos linked to autism, learning disabilities and more. Please let your legislators know you want them to vote YES on the override.
Protecting our Pollinators: Since the 2016 Pollinator Protection Act was passed making it illegal for consumers to use pollinator-harming neonic-containing garden products, the situation has worsened with historic recorded losses of bees. For Maryland's pollinators, this is partly due to a loophole in the law that the Md Dept of Agriculture is interpreting to allow certain stores to leave these products on their shelves for sale to consumers--even though its illegal for consumers to purchase and use them! Please tell your legislators to support fixing this loophole by supporting HB208/SB375.
.jpg) Protecting our Food and Farmworkers: Join us in urging MD legislators to enact mandatory COVID19 protections for essential farmworkers, poultry and seafood processing workers.#ProtectMDFoodWorkers who feed us. Watch the short video and tell your legislators to support fair and humane COVID-19 protections with a click.
On the national level
 Tell Biden 's EPA to act quickly on dangerous pesticides. Sign this Pesticide Action Network petition urging quick action to protect those most at risk, from harmful pesticides that were approved for use - or expanded uses - by the outgoing administration.
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POLLINATOR / BEE BUZZ
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Insects are vanishing at alarming rates, but we can save them! Every year, the number of insects drops by 1-2%, devastated by pesticides & habitat loss. That means areas of severe decline could lose as much as 1/3 of all their insects in two decades. Read more.
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LET'S GET SERIOUS ABOUT SOIL & FOOD SAFETY
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A drastic revolution in the way we eat and farm could limit habitat lost to agriculture to a mere 1%. If we don't change our food systems, according to new research, the fate of almost 20,000 species--birds, amphibians, and mammals--hangs in the balance: Read more.
Protecting our food supply, farmers & farmworkers
 New research explores ongoing racism in US farming. Despite some progress in diversity and racial justice in the U.S. as a whole ... farming remains deeply segregated: Read more.
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Prolonged exposure to Roundup causes significant harm to keystone species' DNA according to new research conducted at the UK's University of Birmingham. 
A first-of-its kind study aims to tease out the link between exposure to toxic chemicals (including pesticides) and cancer in children in the places they live, learn & play: 
EPA's reputation over the past four years across the globe is as a "pesticide pushover" given its reckless embrace of banned pesticides. Our broken EPA pesticide office stands at a crossroads. 
