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  • Did the BLM Spike New Mexico's ditches?

    Herbicide spread by BLM land managers on range near Malaga, N.M., has washed into the Black River, contaminating a diversion ditch and killing nearby farmers' crops and trees

    by Joshua Zaffos, Nov 25, 2002

  • Western wish list for Obama

    Eleven key Westerners speak with HCN about their hopes and worries for an Obama administration.

    by Ray Ring, Dec 22, 2008

  • Leonard Felix

    Leonard Felix, in his own words, defends the safety record of the pesticides he and others aerially spray.

    by Paul Larmer, Jan 20, 1997

  • Farm workers' kids exposed to pesticides

    An EPA report reveals that some children of Washington state farm workers show elevated levels of pesticide exposure.

    by Kayley Mendenhall, Aug 14, 2000

  • What's not on the label

    The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides wins a lawsuit requiring the EPA to divulge the "inert ingredients" of six pesticides.

    by Katie Fesus, Nov 11, 1996

  • Communities search for a safer way to kill mosquitoes

    In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a boil

    by Gail Binkly, Sep 13, 2004

  • Poison in the Wind

    As suburban neighborhoods sprawl into California’s agricultural land, residents are faced with pesticide drift and other problems

    by Michelle Burkhart, Apr 03, 2006

  • A cheatgrass antidote - maybe

    The BLM's desire to use DuPont's pesticide Oust to kill a weed called cheatgrass provokes controversy.

    by Jamie Murray, Peter Chilson, Aug 04, 1997

  • Chemicals aren't the only answer

    The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides celebrates 20 years of activism with an anniversary conference.

    by Staff, Sep 29, 1997

  • Farmworker protection agency misrepresented

    by Bob Arrington, Nov 10, 2003
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