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(Beyond Pesticides, September 16, 2016) Tell EPA to ban all uses of atrazine in the United States! <\/strong>Atrazine, widely used on food and feed crops, golf courses, and residential lawns, is a potent endocrine disruptor that is \u00a0strongly associated with birth defects, cancer, sex reversal and hermaphroditism in many different animals. The European Union and other countries have banned atrazine, however EPA continues to put U.S. citizens and the environment in harm\u2019s way, allowing nonstop use of this toxic chemical. Sign Beyond Pesticides\u2019 petition to ban atrazine<\/a> by October 5, 2016.<\/p>\n

\"farmerAtrazine<\/a> is the second-most widely used pesticide in the U.S., with over 73 million pounds applied each year. Atrazine has washed into surface water and leached into groundwater, spurring community water utilities \u00a0across the U.S. to file class-action lawsuits to remove the pesticide from drinking water supplies.<\/p>\n

Even at levels established as \u201csafe\u201d or acceptable by EPA drinking water standards, atrazine is linked to endocrine-disrupting effects. EPA is not adequately assessing the effects of atrazine by using high dose testing models, which are not appropriate for hormonally-active substances \u00a0that \u00a0often show effects at minute doses. Studies by Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D.<\/a>, University of California, Berkeley, \u00a0and others have shown that concentrations as little as 0.1ppb impact hormone function in organisms and turns tadpoles into hermaphrodites \u2014 organisms \u00a0with both male and female sexual characteristics. Research also finds that atrazine interferes with mammary gland development in the breast of mammals and is \u00a0linked to certain birth defects<\/a> \u00a0like gastroschisis and choanal atresia, which are significantly increased for pregnant women with high levels of atrazine exposure in \u00a0agricultural areas and from urban streams.<\/p>\n

Despite these disturbing findings and the availability of other least-toxic herbicide options, EPA has taken an unacceptably slow and unresponsive approach in the regulation of atrazine. In previous approvals of atrazine, EPA has concluded \u00a0that there is no evidence of adverse effects on animal development. However, in April of this year, the agency released a draft ecological risk assessmen that finds atrazine poses unacceptable risks<\/a> \u00a0to fish, amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, and even birds, reptiles and mammals. You can submit comments<\/a> on the draft ecological risk assessment for atrazine (EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0266) in the federal docket until October 5, 2016.<\/p>\n

The assessments evaluated risks to animals and plants, including amphibians, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, aquatic invertebrates, aquatic plant communities, and terrestrial plants. EPA concludes, \u201caquatic plant communities are impacted in many areas where atrazine use is heaviest, and there is potential chronic risks to fish, amphibians, and aquatic invertebrate in these same locations. In the terrestrial environment, there are risk concerns for mammals, birds, reptiles, plants and plant communities across the country for many of the atrazine uses.\u201d Levels of concerns were exceeded by as much as 200-fold for some organisms<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

In July, California\u2019s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that atrazine, its chemical cousins propazine and simazine, and its breakdown triazine compounds would be added to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity for purposes of the state\u2019s Proposition 65.<\/p>\n

The evidence is clear. Atrazine harms wildlife, persists in soils, and moves easily through waterways. An EPA official stated years ago that, \u201cThe ultimate decision [with atrazine] is much bigger than science, it weighs in public opinion.\u201d Use your voice to #banatrazine!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take Action:<\/strong> Sign the petition to urge EPA to end the use of atrazine.<\/strong><\/a> In order to protect human and ecological health, the agency should take immediate action to eliminate this chemical from our environment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, September 16, 2016) Tell EPA to ban all uses of atrazine in the United States! Atrazine, widely used on food and feed crops, golf courses, and residential lawns, is a potent endocrine disruptor that is \u00a0strongly associated with birth defects, cancer, sex reversal and hermaphroditism in many different animals. The European Union and other countries have banned atrazine, however EPA continues to put U.S. citizens and the environment in harm\u2019s way, allowing nonstop use of this toxic chemical. Sign Beyond Pesticides\u2019 petition to ban atrazine by October 5, 2016. Atrazine is the second-most widely used pesticide in the U.S., with over 73 million pounds applied each year. Atrazine has washed into surface water and leached into groundwater, spurring community water utilities \u00a0across the U.S. to file class-action lawsuits to remove the pesticide from drinking water supplies. Even at levels established as \u201csafe\u201d or acceptable by EPA drinking water standards, atrazine is linked to endocrine-disrupting effects. EPA is not adequately assessing the effects of atrazine by using high dose testing models, which are not appropriate for hormonally-active substances \u00a0that \u00a0often show effects at minute doses. Studies by Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, \u00a0and others have shown that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,72,144,196,293,85,215,9,10,276,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-atrazine","category-birth-defects","category-cancer","category-developmental-disorders","category-endocrine-disruption","category-farmworkers","category-national-politics","category-pesticide-regulation","category-take-action","category-uncategorized","category-water"],"yoast_head":"\nTake Action to Ban Atrazine: EPA Must Protect Wildlife! - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/09\/take-action-ban-atrazine-epa-must-protect-wildlife\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Take Action to Ban Atrazine: EPA Must Protect Wildlife! - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, September 16, 2016) Tell EPA to ban all uses of atrazine in the United States! 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