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Welcome to NCAP's blog: The Buzz! Here you'll find everything you ever wanted to know about the latest efforts to reduce pesticides, tips for finding effective alternatives, and what you can do to help create a safe world and protect the health of people and the environment.
Fisheries Service Finds Three Herbicides Imperil West Coast Salmon
The detailed analysis highlights failings in EPA's current regulation of pesticides. read more...
Multiple Failings in EPA’s Pesticide Regulation Exposed by Analysis of Herbicides Risk to Salmon
Healthy Harvest: NCAP's Annual Event 2012
Farmers Speak Out On 2012 Farm Bill
Oregon Farmer Travels to Washington, DC to meet with Congressman Kurt Schrader read more...
NCAP Turns 35: Check Out Our 35th Anniversary Website!
The School Environmental Protection Act (SEPA)
A new bill that would provide a minimum national standard to protect kids by reducing pesticide use in their places of learning. read more...
'Tis the Season...for in District Outreach
Margaret Krome of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute explains why this is the season to meet with your delegates. Courtesy of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). read more...
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: Composting for Healthy Plants
What to do with all those leaves? They're compost gold. Easy tips for starting your own pile. read more...
Tug of War
2011's story of environmental groups, chemical companies, and the battle for science. read more...
Sink or Swim
if you were on a ship that was sinking, would you climb in a lifeboat and start rowing, or would you throw the lifeboat overboard to lighten the load? This seemingly easy-to-answer question has given Congress a hard time in the form of ‘What to do with sustainable agriculture programs now that the economy is failing?’ read more...
