Sentences with phrase «using environmental poisons»
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«After thousands of poisonings, it is mind - boggling that aldicarb is still in use,» said Steve Scholl - Buckwald, managing director of the environmental group Pesticide Action Network North America.
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Its warning that indiscriminate use of pesticides was poisoning the planet is frequently credited with having started the modern environmental movement.
The Hermit and the Time Machine is clever and charming with an environmental message that is handled in thought - provoking ways — robots using recycled dump materials, no more humans in existence because they polluted and poisoned the planet.
Our initial goals are simple: to track individual Turkey Vultures beyond the Marin Headlands using GSM transmitters, and to quantify their exposure to environmental contaminants, rat poisons in particular.
The Vermont - based Mercury Policy Project study showed the bulbs pose a threat of mercury poisoning if they break, prompting the federal Environmental Protection Agency and both Massachusetts and Vermont to revise recommendations for where homeowners should use the bulbs.
They also found the administration had been working to undermine government science used to deal with childhood lead poisoning, endangered species, air pollution and environmental - health issues.
Lead poisoning from bullets was hindering the recovery of the critically endangered California condor in the United States despite bans on the use of such ammunition in condor habitats, according to a 2012 report by Environmental toxicologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz.