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Coming in future issues…..
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Progress Report on Fontenelle Trees
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Nebraska Byways:
Stories about
Nebraskans
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Call the EPA Today
As soon as this Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to rule on the fate of the most deadly pesticide to birds -- one which also poses significant human health risks.
Speak out now for our bald eagles, owls, and other wildlife!
Call EPA official James Gulliford at (202) 564-2902 and encourage him to protect birds, fish and mammals by immediately banning carbofuran.
All you have to do is deliver a simple message:
"Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I live in [YOUR STATE]. I'm calling to urge you to prevent needless bird deaths by doing everything in your power to ban the pesticide carbofuran."
Then, just click here to let us know how your call went. The information you provide on the agency's response will help our strategy to protect wildlife and reduce the use of toxic pesticides.
If you don't have time to make a phone call right now (or would prefer not to), please consider sending an email to make sure your voice is heard on this important issue. Just click here to send your message right now.
Why are we so concerned about carbofuran? This pesticide is extremely toxic to birds. In fact, just one granule of carbofuran is enough to kill a songbird. Its liquid format is equally deadly.
Carbofuran has killed millions of birds, including hundreds of bald eagles and thousands of waterfowl. Birds from more than 100 other species have also been killed, including eastern bluebirds, northern pintails, American robins, owls, swallows, grackles, killdeer and kestrels.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has told EPA for decades that carbofuran poses an unreasonable hazard to birds. Yet EPA has failed to act, even after Fish and Wildlife Service biologists have stated, "There are no known circumstances under which carbofuran can be used without killing birds."
Carbofuran doesn't kill just birds. It can contaminate water and kill fish and mammals that ingest contaminated prey.
There is no reason to be using this toxic pesticide when safer alternatives exist.
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More WPA stories about Nebraska by Nebraskans
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Operation Rescue, the anti-abortion group, has lost its tax free status according to the Catholics for a Free Choice…..Rupert Murdoch, owner of the ultra right wing propaganda machine known as FOX News, along with 17 other Murdoch execs are pumping money into Democratic Congressman Harold Ford's campaign for the U.S. Senate in the state of Tennessee….Republican challenger Kevin Wiscus denounced his party and became an independent in his race for an Iowa legislative seat after the Iowa Republican party, unknown to Wiscus, mailed a campaign piece attacking current legislator Democrat Kurt Swaim as being soft on sex offenders because he worked once as a public defender. The Iowa GOP stands by its mailer…..Former Magnum, P.I. Star Tom Selleck is rumored to be the next t to head the National Rifle Association….Actor Michael J. Fox will host a fundraiser for MO Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. The candidate has made stem cell research a major part of her campaign and the question of funding and research is on the ballot in MO. Fox suffers from Parkinson's Disease, one of the likely diseases to be cured by stem cell research….The Democrats were leaning strongly towards Minneapolis as their convention site in 2008 until the Republicans announced their decision some three months early to have their convention in Minneapolis. Denver has moved up the ladder of convention sites for the Democrats now….. A Charleston, SC, City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can't properly care for their kids should be sterilized. "We pick up stray animals and spay them," Larry Shirley said in a story published Saturday by The Post and Courier of Charleston…..Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia says he was reminded of his own campaign experience when he saw a new
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Republican television ad against Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. So the disabled Vietnam veteran came to the Ohio Democrat's defense. "I've seen this movie before. I've seen what distortions can do," Cleland said Friday. "It beat me in 2002, and I hope the voters of Ohio don't buy it."…..A new poll in Nebraska's Republican 3rd congressional district shows Democrat Scott Kleeb within the margin of error against his GOP opponent. The seat is being vacated by Congressman Tom Osborne…..Yesterday, the husband of the late impeached NV controller Kathy Augustine was charged with her murder. ….one of the women who stood up at a Sen. George Allen (R-VA) press conference to criticize Democrat Jim Webb for his '79 article about whether women should be in the Navel Academy, has now endorsed Webb….Pete Ricketts,the Rove-picked Republican challenging Sen. Ben Nelson, has dumped $10 million of his own fortune into the senate race in which he is currently trailing Nelson by a 55-32 margin according to the latest independent polls...
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U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson: Phone: (202) 224-6551 Fax: (202) 228-001240, Suite 5 Dirksen Basement (Temp)
Washington, DC 20510
senator@bennelson.senate.gov
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel: Phone: (202) 224-4224 Fax: (202) 224-5213
346 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry: Phone: (202) 225-4806, Fax (202) 225-5686 1517 Longworth House Office Bldg. Washington,DC 20515
Rep. Lee Terry:Phone: (202) 225-4155 Fax: (202) 226-5452 1513 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
talk2lee@mail.house.gov
Rep. Tom Osborne:Phone: (202) 225-6435 Fax: (202) 236-1385
507 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
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SEC. B, p3
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