Who's Protecting Monterey, Santa Cruz and Bay Area Residents, Children, Pets and Wildlife from

Aerial Spraying with Untested Pesticides

Copyright 2007-2008 David Dilworth, HOPE (May 24, 2008) (click for PDF)

 

Who

Oppose Aerial Spraying
Filed Law Suit
 

Support 

Safe Non-Spraying Alternatives

Support Law Changes
Hiding

From Scrutiny

Supports Aerial Pesticide Spraying of People
HOPE - Helping Our Peninsula’s Environment

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Yes, Aug 20, 2007 Yes, won CEQA suit, May 12, 2008, & a 2 week TRO on Oct 10, 2007 Yes, Aug 2007

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Drafted 6 Ideas for Legislative Improvements  
No
Santa Cruz County Yes Yes, won CEQA suit, Apr 24, 2008      
No
Santa Cruz City Yes Yes, won CEQA suit, Apr 24, 2008   Yes  
No
Concerned Citizens Against Aerial Spraying (Mike Lynberg) Yes   Yes Yes  
No
Assemblyman 

Sandre Swanson

Yes     Yes, Introduced the only bill to give the voters veto over spraying.
No
StopTheSpray.org (John Russo) Yes   Yes Yes, collected 25,000 signers
No
Speaker of House Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Letter to Calif. Governor Schwarzenegger "The health and safety of our citizens and our environment must be our top priority ..." and asking questions about long term health effects and how likely spraying is to achieve eradication. (May 8, 2008)    
             
East Bay Info Yes        
No
City of Albany Yes   Yes Yes  
No
City of San Francisco Yes Reviewing Legal Options      
No
Sen. Carole Migden Senate Environment Comm. unanimously approves her Resolution opposing aerial spraying. Apr 28, 08      
KPIX (CBS) 5 Anna Werner, Reporter Excellent Investigative Reporting on Health Impacts of Spraying and Kawamura’s "fish stories."
KGO Joanie Greggains Host Yes        
No
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Yes, until studies are done with public comment.        
Pacific Grove City Yes, Sept 5, 2007 No, asked many times Yes  
Some
No
Monterey City Yes, Aug 30, 2007 No, asked many times    
Some
No
Edna Williams and other plaintiffs Yes Yes, lost in Federal court.      
No
Stop the Spray Marin, (Frank Egger) Yes        
No
Pesticide Watch Yes        
No
Seaside City Yes        
No
LBAMspray.org Yes        
No
Fort Ord Enviro Justice Network Yes        
No
PANNA Yes     Yes  
No
CCOF          
Yes
========== On The Fence (at best) ==========
Senator Boxer Expressed Concern          
Joe Simitian, Senator Concerned          
Senator Feinstein Non-committal letter to USDA asking for more data.        
John Laird, Assemblyman Yes, but with conditions   No. after formally asked in Nov. 2007 No. Introduced meaningless bill in 2008 and refused to support Swanson’s Consent Bill
Yes - hiding his real positions
No
LA Times   (Sued by Suttera)        
NRDC Barely concerned   Alternatives should be explored and used where feasible.    
Yes, but with concern
CASS (Foster Gamble/Danny Sheehan) Yes     No ! CASS opposed Swanson’s Consent Bill  
No
========== WorthLess ==========
Monterey Aquarium, Julie Packard Refuses to discuss issue or take a position    
Yes
 
Mntry Co Supervisor David Potter        
Yes
 
======== Harmful BAD ACTORS ============
Sea Otter Project, Steve Shimek No        
Yes
Monterey Herald No        
Yes
Santa Cruz Sentinel No (Sued by Sutteraiii)      
Yes
Sam Farr Congressman No      
Yes
Yes
======== Harmful VERY BAD ACTORS ============
Suttera (Pesticide Manufacturer) No Yes        
CDFA & Secretary A.G. Kawamura No (Sued) No No  
Yes
O. Env. H Hazard Ass. No        
Yes
Calif. Dept Pesticide Regulation No   No    
Yes
US-EPA No   No No
Yes
Yes
USDA/APHIS – Osama El-Lissy No   No  
Yes
Yes
Calif. Gov Schwarzenegger No   ? ?
Mostly
Yes
Pres. Bush No   No  
Yes
Yes
Who
Oppose Aerial Spraying
Filed Law Suit
Support 

Safe Non-Spraying Alternatives

Support Law Changes
Hiding

From Scrutiny

Supports Aerial Pesticide Spraying of People
Notes

Lynberg collected and compiled report on unusual symptoms occurring during and right after aerial pesticide spraying.

LA Times editorial opposing secret ingredients in pesticides enkindled Governor Schwarzenegger to release a cursory list only two days later.

NRDC uses an astounding amount of weasel words. Does not say "Halt Spraying" or "Must use safe alternatives."

Shimek, speaking for the Sea Otter Project, remains the only representative of a non-profit to publicly advocate for aerial crop dusting of our cities, our children and our wildlife with untested pesticides.

Suttera, the pesticide manufacturer (who donated more than $140,000 to the Governor's Election campaign) sued several newspapers (Santa Cruz Sentinel, M. C. Weekly, and LA Times) to prevent disclosing pesticide ingredients. The newspapers defended and won the right to publish ingredients, but they never obtained a complete list.

 

What Has HOPE Done for You Lately?

HOPE's efforts were the first to actually stop aerial pesticide spraying of our cities (October 10, 2007) although it was only for 2 weeks. Seven months later we won again when a Judge ordered a stop to aerial spraying of untested pesticides over Monterey until an Environmental Impact report is certified.

HOPE is not merely effective, we have conducted hundreds of hours of expert science and legal research and are experts on this aerial spraying issue for legal matters, and the science of the several dozen facets of the entire issue, and HOPE shares its expertise with the many groups, government agencies and passionate individuals working to stop the aerial spraying of untested secret pesticides on cities, public areas and wildlife habitats,

HOPE also provides expertise on feasible, more effective non-spraying non-toxic alternatives, so we created a viable, more effective, safe non-spraying solution - the Targeted use of pheromone-baited sticky traps which has now been partially adopted by CDFA,

HOPE serves as a credible source of information on the issue, because we carefully verify all information we provide. We have spent hundreds of hours informing the public, government officials and the media, and have provided dozens of media interviews and been quoted in the LA Times, NPR, Associated Press and the SF Bay Guardian,

HOPE publicly identified that there is no public health agency collecting, analyzing or reporting on the health impacts on the humans subject to the aerial spraying, and then we created the only spray monitoring plan,

HOPE researched and wrote a comprehensive litigation strategy in September 2007, including the use of our Constitutional Right to Obtain Safety and the use of common law including trespass and nuisance,

HOPE organized dozens of people for dozens of meetings; distilled the complex issues into powerful sound bytes, prepared numerous Powerpoint presentations for public education, participated in meetings where we successfully persuaded the first government agencies to officially oppose the aerial spraying; the cities of Monterey and Pacific Grove; cities which do not normally oppose anything environmentally harmful,

HOPE analyzed and prepared six ideas for state legislation (including Informed Consent) which were officially endorsed by the Santa Cruz Council,

HOPE prepared this chart showing who is protecting us from the pesticide spraying - and who isn't, and continually identifies the most important elected officials and agencies to persuade, and 

HOPE keeps all interested parties, especially activists, public officials and the media, updated with accurate, verified information to provide a reliable source of information for this issue.

 

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