Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
BE SAFE NC Campaign


Aerial Pesticides


April 26, 2004: BREDL and Protect All Children's Environment (PACE) Action Alert (.pdf) asking the NC Dept. of Agriculture to require public notification of ALL aerial pesticides spraying.

Oct. 20, 2003: BREDL member group Protect All Children's Environment (PACE) letter to NC Attorney General requesting enforcement of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act and for North Carolina to join the lawsuit filed by 10 other states and the US Virgin Islands who have called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to follow a federal law governing pesticide use in public housing projects across the country. 

Oct. 20, 2003: BREDL member group Protect All Children's Environment (PACE) Press Statement regarding BE SAFE NC campaign and aerial pesticides.

Oct. 07, 2003: EPA letter to NC Pesticide Board expressing "significant concerns with the Board's proposal" to deregulate aerial pesticide rules in NC. (.pdf)




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Protect All Children's Environment - Established in 1987 for people poisoned by the now-banned pesticide, Chlordane, PACE exists to give comfort and support. Through PACE, pesticide victims provide support to fellow survivors on an all-volunteer, not-for-profit basis.