DCS Joins Forces with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pollinator Pathway to help PASS THE BIRDS & BEES PROTECTION ACT in New York.

DCS has been protecting public health, educating individuals, officials and organizations, and taking precautionary actions since our inception. DCS has worked collaboratively with the NRDC (among many other groups) and Dr. Kathy Nolan for years. You can’t have good, clean food in a contaminated environment.

Join us for a talk on the science behind threats posed by neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics) to pollinators, biodiversity, water quality, and our own health.

Thursday, December 1, 6:30 PM, Zoom

Neonics, the Toxic Truth: The Pesticides Threatening Bees, Birds, and Human Health

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Neonics are the most widely used pesticides in the country and are surprisingly prevalent in our environment. They contaminate soil, water, and plant life on a nearly unprecedented scale, driving mass losses of birds and bees, and raising alarm bells for a whole host of wildlife, clean water, and human health.

The webinar will provide information on how communities everywhere can act to promote policy restricting neonics, and it will focus on what New Yorkers can do NOW to pass the Birds & Bees Protection Act— a bill that would eliminate the vast majority of neonics entering New York’s environment by prohibiting wasteful and unnecessary uses of the pesticides. It’s not too soon for New Yorkers to call their state representatives and ask them to support the Birds & Bees Protection Act. Here’s how YOU can take action:

• Find your NY State representatives
• Download our script in Word or our script as a pdf, outlining the issues involved and what you might say
• Write, email or call your representatives urging them to pass the Birds & Bees Protection Act

Speakers:

Dan Raichel is Acting Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Pollinator initiative, which focuses on protecting our nation’s bee populations from the ever-growing threats to their health and existence—in particular, the use of bee-toxic pesticides. Raichel was formerly co-director of NRDC’s Community Fracking Defense Project and an advocate for the cleanup of industrial pollution in the New York region.

Dr. Kathleen Nolan is a pediatrician, President of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, New York Chapter, and Senior Research Director at Catskill Mountainkeeper. Over the past three decades, as a doctor and bioethicist, she has served Ulster County and the Catskills by focusing on public health and the environment—playing an important role in achieving New York State’s pioneering ban on fracking by helping to compile and provide data on health harms associated with the practice to decisionmakers. Kathy majored in philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University and graduated with honors, and received her medical degree, along with a Masters of Studies in Law, from Yale University.