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- Judge rejects Bush decision on pesticides
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  good news for the environment: science still matters
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- Judge strikes down Bush administration decision to weaken rules governing pesticide use
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  A federal judge on Thursday rejected a Bush administration decision to weaken rules governing pesticide use, saying the change lacked scientific justification. It was the second time in recent years that U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour chastised federal agencies for failing to follow the Endangered Species Act in licensing pesticides for sale.
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- E.P.A. Recommends Limits on Thousands of Uses of Pesticides
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  The study, which focused on more than 230 chemicals known as organophosphates and carbamates, could lead to the elimination of 3,200 uses and the modification in use of 1,200 others, like chlorpyrifos, diazinon and methyl parathion, which have been long been controversial for their role in causing illnesses. Environmental groups applauded the recommendation to cancel most uses of carbofuran, a common insecticide used on corn, rice, tobacco and other crops that has had particularly deadly effects on birds.
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- Study links pesticides with Parkinson's
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  People with long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides have a 70 percent higher incidence of Parkinson's disease than people who have not been exposed much to bug sprays, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. Such workers include mostly farmers, ranchers and fishermen.
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- EPA plans to phase out use of apple, pear pesticide
  Posted by Billbar from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  "This pesticide has put thousands of workers at risk of serious illness every year," Erik Nicholson, of the United Farmworkers of America, said in a news release Monday. "The phase-out is welcome, although it should have come years ago."
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- Pesticides Found In Most Rivers, Streams
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  Though the pesticides were less common in ground water, the U.S. Geological Survey's study of data between 1992 and 2001 found them present in streams in both urban and agricultural areas at concentrations that could affect aquatic life or fish-eating wildlife.
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- Ants Use Antibiotics to Fight Pests
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  Fungus-gardening ants have the same problems as human farmers—crop-eating pests. These ants enlist the help of antibiotic-producing bacteria to keep their gardens in order.
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Pesticides

Judge rejects Bush decision on pesticides

Judge strikes down Bush administration decision to weaken rules governing pesticide use

E.P.A. Recommends Limits on Thousands of Uses of Pesticides

Study links pesticides with Parkinson's

EPA plans to phase out use of apple, pear pesticide

Pesticides Found In Most Rivers, Streams

Ants Use Antibiotics to Fight Pests

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