Friend,

Pesticide exposure is potentially dangerous, which is why we're working on banning the worst uses of toxic pesticides.1

But the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) weakened crucial safeguards against pesticide exposure last year.2

With a change in the presidential administration and new EPA leadership, we have a chance to restore pesticide safety measures.

Tell the Biden administration's EPA: Restore stronger pesticide safety measures.

One harmful pesticide, atrazine, can cause reproductive problems in humans and animals. Plus, it has been linked to cancer.3

The EPA's current pesticide safety regulations don't do enough to protect farmworkers and the public from pesticides like atrazine.

According to the EPA's rules, the required buffer zone between pesticide application areas and other people will only be enforced within a farmer's property.4 But pesticides don't follow property lines -- they can drift into neighboring farms or family homes.

We shouldn't have to worry if breathing the air near a farm could make us sick. The Trump administration's EPA limited safeguards on toxics that we know are dangerous -- and we need to reverse this decision.

Tell the Biden administration's EPA to restore pesticide safety measures.

U.S. PIRG is working to pass legislation that would ban the worst pesticides -- like atrazine. But until we're able to rid our environment of these harmful chemicals, we need to mitigate the damage that these toxics cause communities across the country.

Protect the public from pesticides by sending a message to the EPA today.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. "Potential Health Effects of Pesticides," Pennsylvania State University, September 13, 2017.
2. Rachel Frazin, "EPA limits enforcement of pesticide application boundaries," The Hill, October 29, 2020.
3. Scott Fletcher, "Biden is Reevaluating Chlorpyrifos Pesticide -- Why Not Also Atrazine?," Georgetown Law, February 19, 2021.
4. Rachel Frazin, "EPA limits enforcement of pesticide application boundaries," The Hill, October 29, 2020.