pesticides

Op-Ed | Should We Stop Spraying for Mosquitoes During the Pandemic?

by Kyla Bennett | October 7, 2020
Should we be using pesticides when spraying for mosquitoes that may compromise someone’s respiratory system during a pandemic ...

BLOG | Protect Honeybees and Pollinators by Ending the Use of Toxic Pesticides 

by Rina Herzl | June 24, 2020
Pollinators are collapsing around the world and even more so in the United States. What we are witnessing is an “insect apocalypse ...

BLOG: EPA Continues to Approve Bee-Killing Insecticides

by Peter Jenkins | January 8, 2020
With over 40 percent of insect life threatened with extinction, the EPA continues to issue emergency exemptions to toxic pollinator-killing insecticides ...

PEER Hosts Congressional Briefing on Toxic Pesticides

by Susan Sargent | October 14, 2019
Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Nydia Velázquez join agricultural and health experts and environmental advocates for congressional briefing on toxic pesticides ...
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