[MDOsprey] Pesticide Threat - Your Support Needed

Marcia Watson-Whitmyre (mww@UDel.Edu)
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:03:08 -0400 

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Cecil Bird Club member Susan Peterson has alerted our club
to a potential new pesticide threat to birds - an
application for EPA approval of a new pesticide known as
chlorfenapyr.  I apologize if you are already aware of this,
but if you don't know about it, please read on.

The American Bird Conservancy is leading a campaign to keep
chlorfenapyr from being approved, because it has extremely
high reproductive toxicity in birds and other wildlife.  It
sounds like this stuff could be the next DDT-type disaster.
The excerpt below is from the ABC's "What's New" web site at
http://www.abcbirds.org/whatsnew.htm;  more information can
be found on the ABC website at
http://www.abcbirds.org/_borders/chlorf.htm and at
http://www.abcbirds.org/_borders/timeline.htm  Please
consider writing to Carol Browner, EPA Administrator, and to
Senator John Breaux (D LA) (e-mail addresses below) to voice
your concerns.

<<<The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced
April 30, 1999, that it would not grant a
                full registration to American Cyanamid for
the cotton pesticide chlorfenapyr (brand names Pirate and
                Alert). The American Bird Conservancy (ABC)
leads the opposition to this pesticide, which has a
half-life
                of one or more years in soil, as well as
high reproductive toxicity to birds and other wildlife.
Chlorfenapyr
                has been characterized by EPA as "one of the
most reproductively toxic pesticides to avian species that
                Environmental Fate and Effects Division has
evaluated."

                Although full registration (section 3) of
chlorfenapyr has not been granted, EPA is considering the
                possibility of again granting state-by-state
emergency exemptions but under "very severe use
restrictions."
                The Agency has approved such exemptions over
the past four years in several states. American
                Cyanamid however, objects to the limited
conditions of emergency exemptions and is pressing EPA to
                reverse its position. Some members of
Congress primarily from cotton growing states support
                Cyanamid’s bid for full registration.

                Because of this, ABC is again calling for
those who oppose registration of chlorfenapyr to send
                letters to EPA asking that they protect
birds and other wildlife by denying ALL chlorfenapyr
                registrations. Letters of continuing
opposition to registration and public support for EPA’s
                current position can be e-mailed to: EPA
Administrator Carol Browner at
                browner.carol@epa.gov and to Senator John
Breaux (D LA) who supports registration
                senator@breaux.senate.gov>>>

Marcia Watson-Whitmyre
Cecil County


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