Pesticide Reports and Brochures
Roundup: Why Is it Dangerous?
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Pesticide Risks: From Our Farms to Our Homes
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Pesticide Law and Regulations
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Read EHHI's NEW OpEd: Clothing Impregnated with Permethrin — What Could Go Wrong?
Read about chemical analysis conducted at Yale University by Gaboury Benoit, Ph.D., the Grinstein Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Yale's Environment School. His research was supported by a grant EHHI received from the Forrest and Frances Lattner Foundation. The 2018 article appeared in Water Air Soil Pollution.
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Pesticide Risks on Lawns and Homes
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Resulting Legislation: Public Act No. 16-17: An Act Concerning Pollinator Health
Resulting Legislation: Public Act No. 07-168: An Act Banning Pesticide Use on School Grounds
Resulting Legislation: Public Act No. 05-252: An Act Concerning Pesticides at Schools and Day Care Facilities
Sign Up for DEEP’s Pesticide Registry by December 31 to Be Protected From Neighbors’ Spraying Next Spring
A Short Legislative History of Pesticides in Connecticut
Resulting Legislation: Public Act No. 05-252: An Act Concerning Pesticides at Schools and Day Care Facilities
Sign Up for DEEP’s Pesticide Registry by December 31 to Be Protected From Neighbors’ Spraying Next Spring
A Short Legislative History of Pesticides in Connecticut
Mosqito Misting Devices Banned in Connecticut
From the EPA: EPA does not regulate timed-release residential misting systems. The outdoor devices spray toxic insecticides on a continual basis at heights that could spray children and pets.CT Public Act 18-84: An Act Prohibiting the Use of Residential Automatic Pesticide Misting Systems
Safe Lawns for Healthy Communities: What the Lawn-Care Pesticide Preemption Law Means for Cities and Towns
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Connecticut's pesticide preemption law prohibits towns and municipalities from having stricter lawn-care pesticide regulations than the state laws.
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