Children
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...
Community Group Continues Push for IPM
Following a rapid and successful campaign to establish a city-wide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, health and environmental advocates in Ketchum, Idaho are now pushing to broaden the reach of their new policy. read more...
Idaho IPM Campaign Gathers Steam
An update from Kathryn Goldman, who is pushing for a county-wide IPM policy to eliminate pesticide uses in public places. read more...
Idaho Activists Seek Pesticide-free Places
Citizens in Blaine County, Idaho meet with local government to discuss pesticide use in parks, schools and other public places. read more...
Bed Bugs, Propoxur and the EPA
Some thoughts on the national discussion happening around a recently banned pesticide. read more...
Toolbox Tip: Head Lice
Non-chemical and least toxic strategies for treating head lice. read more...
Organophosphate Exposure Linked to Attention Difficulties
A new study links prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides to attention deficit disorders in children. read more...
Chlorphyrifos and Children
Most of you have probably eaten a Washington-grown apple. But you probably didn't know that most of these apple trees are literally blasted with insecticides that are harmful to the nervous system (including the brain!). One of these insecticides – a well-studied chemical called chlorpyrifos – was banned for use in homes because of its high risk to children. But there are still children who are being exposed to this chemical - the children in farming communities where your apples and other foods are grown read more...
Insecticide Exposure is Common: Kids are Exposed More than Adults
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), is the first study to look at insecticide exposures of a statistical sample of all Americans. Recently, CDC scientists published an analysis of how insecticide exposure varies among Americans of different age read more...
Minimizing Children's Exposure to Pesticides is Prudent
Do pesticides cause special problems for children? A new review of a series of research studies completed during the last decade suggests that the answer to this question is yes, and that we need to be sure that children are being exposed to pesticides as little as possible. read more...
