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October 21, 2009
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
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- bee, carbamate, carbaryl, flea, pesticide, petcollar, petition, pets, poison, pollinator, ticks, toxic, toxicchemicals
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the use of carbaryl, a highly toxic pesticide, in pet collars will be withdrawn! In 2005 NRDC filed a petition to cancel carbaryl. We asked that EPA cancel uses of carbaryl in pet flea collars...continued→
October 29, 2008
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
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- bee, carbamate, carbaryl, pesticide, petition, pets, pollinator, simplesteps, toxic, toxicchemicals
On January 10, 2005, NRDC petitioned EPA to cancel both agriculture and residential uses of carbaryl. Today, October 29, 2008, EPA finally published in the Federal Register its response to our petition. Unfortunately, its decision is to deny our petition,...continued→