Dear Center Supporter,
Pesticides are contaminating our water, and this toxic pollution can mean sickness or death for wildlife -- and people, too. More than 1,000 waterways in the United States are impaired by pesticide pollution: In a nationwide study, the U.S. Geological Survey found pesticides or their byproducts in every stream it sampled.
These chemicals can cause severe reproductive and developmental deformities, cancer, and even death in fish and amphibians. And the poisons can move up the food chain -- potentially harming people who eat tainted fish and drink tainted water.
But the petrochemical industry and big agribusiness are now pushing Congress to let sneaky backdoor riders on this year's farm bill gut the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. They want to weaken rules that help monitor and protect our rivers and creeks from unsafe levels of pesticides and trample on pollution controls that protect rare and vanishing plants and animals.
Please -- take action now to tell your senators to protect our wildlife and waterways from pesticides by voting against the dangerous amendments in this farm bill.
If you can't open the link, go to http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14642.
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Photo of stream courtesy Flickr/rachel_thecat.
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