Annapolis, Maryland | June 25, 2026 – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a deeply disappointing decision in Monsanto v. Durnell that puts the interests of pesticide manufacturers ahead of the health and safety of farmers, farm workers, consumers, and communities. By ruling that federal pesticide law blocks state failure-to-warn claims, the Court has crippled […]
Compilation of a decade of scientific research confirms that pesticides are harming the health of crucial Bay ecological systems May 27, 2025 | Annapolis, Maryland – A new report summarizes more than a decade of research findings about how pesticides are putting water quality at risk in the Chesapeake Bay, and may be affecting drinking […]
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Organic State House Land Care Award Given To Gov. Wes Moore, Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller, and Maryland State House Trust January 28, 2025 | Annapolis, MD – Advocates and supporters today cheered a decade of successful organic lawn care practices on the Maryland State House grounds by recognizing Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland State […]
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Pesticide transparency enables researchers, health professionals, and others to tackle harm to humans, wildlife, and the environment (Annapolis, Maryland) — Today, December 17, 2024, the Maryland Pesticide Education Network, in partnership with Earthjustice and a broad coalition of farmers, scientists, public health experts, businesses, and advocates petitioned the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) to comply […]
2016 is off to a great start! We’re gearing up support for the 2016 Pollinator Protection Act that will curb consumer purchases of toxic neonic pesticides and ensure that consumers know when plants contain them. The Pollinator Protection Act will be a high priority at this year’s Environmental Legislative Summit, an annual event that […]
May 22, 2015 For those who visit the Maryland State Fair each year, the honey and wax exhibit is always a highlight. A busy hive of bees can be viewed through a plastic window, there’s locally-produced honey and candles in a variety of shapes and sizes for sale, and members of the Maryland State […]
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Can we take the sting out of pollinator losses? It requires state-level action. June 8, 2015 It is unfortunate that the U.S. Department of Agriculture findings that show Maryland beekeepers lost 61 percent of their colonies last year were not available just a few months earlier when the legislative committee I serve upon listened […]
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by Jonathan Latham, PhD USDA researchers have identified the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin as a likely contributor to monarch butterfly declines in North America. The USDA research is published in the journal Science of Nature and was published online on April 3rd (Pecenka and Lundgren 2015). Monarch butterfly populations (Danaus Plexippus) have declined precipitously in […]
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St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 13, 2015 12:00 am Regarding “Monsanto lashes out at cancer agency’s finding on glyphosate” (March 25): Monsanto officials need to review the 1960s controversy over the misuse of DDT before discrediting the misuse of Roundup herbicide by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an agency of the World […]
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Municipal pesticides bans not workable, says Jane Farquharson New provincial legislation allowing municipalities to control some cosmetic pesticide use doesn’t go far enough, says the P.E.I. chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society. Executive director Jane Farquharson told CBC News the society is asking the party that forms the next government to implement a province-wide […]
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We are advancing systemic change toward a sustainable pesticide-free Chesapeake region.
