LEAD for Pollinators Comment letters & Collaborative letters for policy & legislative actions:
2025 (to date)
Comment on EPA’s Proposed Decision for the New Active Ingredient Vadescana; EPA-HQ-OPP-2023-0558 with Center for Food Safety
Comment letter to Finalize strong ESA protections for the Monarch butterfly with Center for Food Safety
Comment Letter for Public Participation for Isocycloseram [EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0641] with Beyond Pesticides
2024
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Draft 2026 Pesticide General Permit (Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0268) with Mass Rivers Alliance
Supporting the EPA’s Rodenticide Mitigations with Center for Biological Diversity
Support for group of bills in Massachusetts legislature
H.811, “An Act relative to improving pesticide protections for Massachusetts schoolchildren,” S.487/H.825, “An Act Relative to Pesticides,” S.521/H.783, “An Act relative to the pesticide board,”S.445/H.845, “An Act establishing an ecologically-based mosquito management program in the Commonwealth to protect public health” with NOFA- Mass
Comment letter – Protect Pollinators & Phase Out Toxic Pesticides with Friends of the Earth
Petition Seeking Rulemaking for Registration of Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Other Systemic Insecticides with American Bird Conservancy
Support legislation to prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine with Center for Biological Diversity
Mosquito Control – Wetlands Restoration and Low Impact Development (LID) Comments with Mass-Audubon
2023
Funding Request for the U.S. Forest Service International Program and Monarch Butterfly Conservation with Center for Biological Diversity
Funding Request for Monarch populations with Center for Biological Diversity
Supporting the EPA’s Vulnerable Species Pilot Project with Center for Biological Diversity
Urge EPA to use its authority under TSCA section 5 to prohibit the New PFAS Uses Letter against with Earthjustice
Oppose Harmful Rollbacks to Pesticide Protections in the FY2024 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Legislation with Center for Biological Diversity
Support to incorporate the Agriculture Resilience Act into the 2023 Farm Bill with OEFFA
FIFRA Preemption Letter with Beyond Pesticides to Massachusetts legislature : Support for S.521/H.783, “An Act relative to the pesticide board” S.487/H.825, “An Act relative to pesticides” S.540/H.814, “An Act empowering towns and cities to protect residents and the environment from harmful pesticides”
Pesticide Efficacy Petition to EPA with PEER
Restoring the National Pesticide Use Database with Friends of the Earth
Oppose Memorandum Supporting the Proposed Registration Decision to Approve the First Outdoor Food Uses on Wheat, Triticale, Barley, and Oats for Chlormequat Chloride with Beyond Pesticides
Tell EPA to strengthen pesticide rules to protect farmworkers and sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families with Beyond Pesticides
Tell EPA Not To Register Genetically Engineered Pesticide Without Complete Data with Beyond Pesticides
Opposition to inclusion of FIFRA Locality Preemption in the Farm Bill with Center for Biological Diversity
Opposing approval of PFAS from plastic fluorination process with Earthjustice
2022
Emergency Protections for Food and Farm Workers During Pandemic Emergency with SMART on Pesticides
Factory Farm Impacts to EJ Communities with Friends of the Earth
Biomass, Landfill Gas, and Factory Farm Gas should not be incentivized through the Renewable Fuel Standard with Friends of the Earth
Ask USDA Not to Fund Factory Farm Biogas with Friends of the Earth
Pollinator-friendly solar program funding support With Mass Pollinator Network
Support to Advance the Schoolchildren Pesticide Bill with NOFA-Mass
LEAD for Pollinators comment letters during 2021
Rhode Island- An Act Relating to Health & Safety-Pesticide Control (March 2021)
House Bill 5641- Read Our Written Testimony
Senate Bill 702- Read Our Written Testimony
Joining with fellow advocates in 2021:
Save the Monarch Butterfly: Signed a bicameral letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking for critical pollinator protections- Jan. 28, 2021
Beyond Pesticides Action for Monarchs to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to eliminate pollinator poisons.
NOFA to oppose Heidi Heitkamp for USDA Secretary.
NOFA Action letter to MDAR (Massachusetts) to ban neonics.
Center for Biological Diversity expressing strong support for the EPA to issue a robust and protective final biological evaluation for atrazine under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
PEER letter to National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , Department of the Interior concerning the Wildlife Refuges policy for genetically modified crops and neonicotinoid insecticides.
Earthjustice letter Urging EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos.
Rural Action letter to Congressional leadership to Support Emergency Relief for Farmers and Ranchers of Color.
LEAD for Pollinators comment letters during 2020
Ohio HB 496 Ohio Apiary Owners Immunity Bill-May/June 2020
Proposed Decision on Some Neonics– April 2020
Joining with fellow advocates:
Beyond Pesticides-Clopyralid PID-July 2020
Massachusetts Neonic Scientific Literature Review June 2020
Beyond Pesticides- Proposed Revised Decision on Some Neonics- May 2020
Food & Water Watch and Friends of the Earth-Treasury Secy Disaster Relief for Farmers- April 2020
Coming Clean- COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program- April 2020
Keep Toxic Herbicides Out of Lake Tahoe with Beyond Pesticides- August 2020
Remove products with glyphosate from retail shelves with Friends of the Earth to Lowe’s and Home Depot