Atrazine - Let's Get It Banned!

Please sign the petition below to get the harmful pesticide Atrazine banned!

Atrazine is one of the world's most common pesticides: over 80 million pounds of it were used on American crops last year, and it has been in use for 50 years. This harmful pesticide turns male frogs into females at concentrations as low as 2.5 parts per billion. Atrazine causes cancer in laboratory mammals and developmental problems in fish. Atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide in rainwater, groundwater and tapwater in the USA.

Frogs and humans share half our DNA, so Atrazine can't be good for humans either. That's likely why the European Union banned the harmful pesticide in 2004. But the company that produces it, Syngenta (based in Switzerland!) has $11 billion in revenues, and has a huge lobby to keep Atrazine on the market in the USA.

Frogs have been disappearing worldwide in recent years. SAVE THE FROGS! needs your help to ensure Atrazine gets banned by the 3rd Annual Save The Frogs Day (April 29th, 2011)! We'll deliver this petition to the USEPA once we get 100,000 signatures.

Atrazine is the 21st century's DDT: let's get it banned!

Dear Administrator Jackson,
Amphibian populations worldwide are rapidly disappearing, and pesticides are a primary contributing factor, as they inevitably end up in the water bodies where amphibians live and breed. I am writing to urge you to federally ban the sale and use of Atrazine in the United States. Abundant scientific evidence shows that this harmful herbicide can wreak havoc on a variety of wildlife species, at concentrations as low as 2.5 parts per billion. It is unfathomable to allow the use of a chemical that can so easily turn male frogs into females, as has been shown to be the case with Atrazine.

Humans and frogs share half our DNA. For the sake of the world's remaining frog populations, and for the health of ourselves and our children, I urge the United States Environmental Protection Agency to place a federal ban on the sale and use of Atrazine.

Thank you for your consideration.

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This petition has a goal of 100000 signatures

76-100 of 11457 signatures

Number	Date	Name	Location	Feel free to leave a comment.
11382	Mon Apr 22 19:44:03 EDT 2013	Gina Hupton	AZ , US	If anyone doubts the detriment of this poison, there are piles of research to decide on your own. For a popular press synopsis of the situation, this could be a good place to start. http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/episodes/troubledwaters/experts/frogs.html More....
11381	Mon Apr 22 16:34:18 EDT 2013	Linda Martens	BC , CA
11380	Sun Apr 21 13:33:13 EDT 2013	Barbara Wickwire	FL , US	We are harming humans with this chemical and must regulate it or stop use of it completely. Frogs are a sign things are going wrong!
11379	Sun Apr 21 10:50:58 EDT 2013	Megan Brown	NC , US
11378	Sun Apr 21 04:09:00 EDT 2013	Alex Jacobsen	ot , NZ	Down with Atrazine! Up with Frogs!
11377	Sat Apr 20 14:29:39 EDT 2013	Amber Palmeri-Miles	WA , US
11376	Fri Apr 19 15:16:41 EDT 2013	Renee Chernega	PA , US	PLEASE DO whatever you can to save our precious frogs! I have loved them since I knew what they were and our future generations deserve this opportunity as well!
11375	Thu Apr 18 20:15:26 EDT 2013	Diana Meschi	NY , USA
11374	Thu Apr 18 13:07:44 EDT 2013	Ararat Weldegebriel	MN , US	Lets save the frogs and atrazine is possible cause of cancer too.
11373	Wed Apr 17 15:16:41 EDT 2013	Brianna Valencia	CA , US
11372	Tue Apr 16 19:05:36 EDT 2013	Maria Brown	WA , US
11371	Tue Apr 16 00:15:13 EDT 2013	Richard Yost	PA , US
11370	Tue Apr 16 00:14:29 EDT 2013	Ginny Yost	PA , US
11369	Tue Apr 16 00:13:48 EDT 2013	Rick Fritz	PA , US
11368	Tue Apr 16 00:13:04 EDT 2013	Beth Jung	PA , US
11367	Mon Apr 15 09:01:08 EDT 2013	July Sanders	VT , US
11366	Mon Apr 15 08:45:49 EDT 2013	Carolyn Martin	OH , US	Let's save the frogs and clean up our ecosystem.
11365	Sun Apr 14 02:47:32 EDT 2013	J Glenn	PA , US
11364	Sun Apr 14 02:46:07 EDT 2013	Catharine Whitlomb	PA , US
11363	Sun Apr 14 02:39:53 EDT 2013	Jason Carroll	PA , US
11362	Sun Apr 14 02:38:52 EDT 2013	Kim Colombero	PA , US
11361	Sun Apr 14 02:37:57 EDT 2013	Harry Holt	PA , US
11360	Sun Apr 14 02:37:00 EDT 2013	Willem Vandenberg	PA , US
11359	Sun Apr 14 02:35:41 EDT 2013	Max Brenneman	PA , US
11358	Sun Apr 14 02:34:56 EDT 2013	Andrea Nickoloff	NY , US

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