{"id":12668,"date":"2014-01-28T01:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=12668"},"modified":"2014-02-03T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:43:21","slug":"state-bill-to-preempt-and-overturn-ge-and-pesticide-restrictions-introduced-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2014\/01\/state-bill-to-preempt-and-overturn-ge-and-pesticide-restrictions-introduced-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"State Bill to Overturn Local GE and Pesticide Limits Introduced in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 28, 2014) In the latest attempt to suppress the voice of local communities and scuttle the implementation of laws to protect health and the environment, last week a bill was introduced in the Hawaii State House of Representatives that will preempt (block) local governments from restricting the use of hazardous pesticides and genetically engineered (GE) crops. Though House Bill 2506<\/a> is being promoted as the expansion of the state\u2019s \u201cRight-to-Farm Act,\u201d the bill will prevent the implementation of new laws recently passed<\/a> in Kauai and Hawaii County. Kauai Councilman Gary Hooser explained to The Garden Island, <\/i>\u201cBoth of these bills take away 100 percent of the authority of the county to regulate agriculture, which includes pesticides. It is without question an attempt to nullify Ordinance 960 (formerly Bill 2491), as well as the ordinance passed on the Big Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KauaiActivism\"<\/a><\/i>Local communities in the Hawaiian Islands fought a number of hard-won battles last year against intrusions by agrichemical companies<\/a> spraying pesticides and planting GE crops near where they work, live, and go to school. After massive outpourings of public support, numerous late-night council sessions, and overcoming a mayoral veto, Kauai County passed Bill 2491<\/a>. Kauai’s Ordinance 960 requires public disclosure of pesticides and GE crop locations, buffer zones around sensitive environmental sites, such as schools, hospitals and shorelines, and an Environmental and Public Health Impacts Study on the utilization of pesticides and GE crops by the giant agrichemical companies on the island.<\/p>\n

On the heels of Kauai\u2019s victory, Mayor Billy Kenoi of Hawaii\u2019s Big Island signed Bill 113<\/a> into law, restricting the planting of any new GE crops. \u201cWith this new ordinance we are conveying that instead of global agribusiness corporations, we want to encourage and support community-based farming and ranching,\u201d said the Mayor in a letter to the Hawaii County Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hawaiian Islands provide some of the most fertile growing conditions on the planet, allowing agrichemical companies to plant up to three seasons of corn in one year. However, along with the continuous planting of corn and other GE crops is the continuous use of herbicides that these crops are modified to withstand. GE agriculture puts farmers on the pesticide treadmill. After farmers begin routinely spraying herbicides, weeds develop resistance to the chemical, requiring increased amounts of herbicides. According to a 2012 study<\/a>, the use of herbicides required to deal with resistant \u201csuperweeds\u201d grew from 1.5 million pounds in 1999 to 90 million pounds in 2011. But it doesn\u2019t stop there. Now, agrichemical companies have gone to the back of the toolshed, resorting to older and increasingly toxic herbicides such as 2,4-D<\/a>, half of the mixture that made up the deadly defoliant Agent Orange, which was sprayed during the Vietnam War. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recommended that these 2,4-D crops be allowed on to market despite evidence already showing resistance<\/a> in certain areas of the county and serious concerns about human and environmental health.<\/p>\n

Most herbicide-resistant GE crops don\u2019t produce their own insecticide, like some GE crops do<\/a>, so along with a regular dousing of herbicides is the frequent use of toxic insecticides such as chlopyrifos,<\/a> a potent neurotoxin (banned for most residential use<\/a> due to risks to children) that has been used on corn fields near schools in Kauai while children were in school. <\/i>Concerned schoolteachers and parents have documented proof of this occurring in a Syngenta field despite assurances from the company<\/a> that it would wait until after the school day is out. See the video here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kauai\u2019s Ordinance 960 takes steps to prevent trespass by implementing commonsense, health-protective pesticide buffer zones around sensitive sites such as hospitals, schools, and neighborhoods. The ordinance promotes accountability by requiring agrichemical companies to disclose where they are spaying pesticides and planting GE crops. Hawaii County\u2019s Bill 113 would also prevent pesticide incidents from occurring by stopping the growth of the agrichemical industry and their new, more dangerous GE crops on the Big Island.<\/p>\n

State legislators should take heed and recognize the importance of these local ordinances. Advocates have argued that the \u201cRight-to-Farm\u201d for private profit should never trump a community\u2019s right to freedom from hazardous chemicals.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Agrichemical companies are suing the Kauai County government<\/a> to stop the implementation of Ordinance 960, claiming that the state law already preempts the county from taking action. However, as Beyond Pesticides pointed out in a recent Pesticides and You<\/i> article entitled \u201cState Preemption Law,<\/a>\u201d Hawaii is one of seven states that currently do not have regulations that would preempt local ordinances from enacting requirements more strict than the state\u2019s. Hawaii House Bill 2506 would reverse that and roll back the right of local communities to take a stand against inadequate state and federal pesticide regulations. You can submit testimony on HB2506 by going to this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on the fight for pesticide protections in the Hawaiian Islands, see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 past Daily News articles<\/a> and read Beyond Pesticides\u2019 testimony on Bill 2491<\/a>. For more information on the failed promises of GE agriculture, read \u201cReady or Not, Genetically Engineered Crops Explode on Market<\/a>,\u201d or see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 website on Genetic Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: The Garden Island<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Image Source: Flikr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides<\/i><\/p>\n

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