Sign our petition: Protect community rights to restrict pesticides!
State and Federal Legislators
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Everyone in North Carolina deserves a healthy environment and should have the right to protect our most at risk. Right now pesticide companies and their lobbyists are trying to sneak language into federal and state bills to further their corporate interests and avoid accountability. They are pushing legislation at the federal level to restrict state and local governments from being able to ban or limit pesticide use. They are pushing state legislatures to grant them immunity from pesticide harm lawsuits.
These are blatant attempts to take away our ability to ban pesticides and to seek legal accountability from pesticide induced health harms. We cannot allow these bills to succeed.
Join us in urging our legislators to block these state and federal bills! Sign this petition to stand with us for biodiversity protection, public health, local pesticide restrictions, and strong corporate accountability.
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To:
State and Federal Legislators
From:
[Your Name]
Dear Representative,
North Carolina communities must be able to protect our health and the environment from harmful chemicals. We write today as community members concerned about pesticide preemption legislation at the state and federal levels. We need you to help ensure that state, county, and local governments retain the right to protect their communities from pesticides and to enact policies that best suit local needs. We need you to help ensure that those harmed by pesticide exposures retain the right to seek legal accountability for pesticide manufacturers failing to properly warn about potential health harms.
Pesticide companies and their lobbyists are trying to take these rights away at the federal and state levels. Biodiversity, local control, public health, and corporate accountability are on the line.
We urge you, as our elected officials, to voice your concerns about pesticide preemption legislation and to stand on the side of healthy communities, not corporate interests. Taking away our rights to local restrictions and legal recourse for those harmed by pesticides are major steps in the wrong direction.
Respectfully,
Toxic Free NC and Concerned Community Members