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Protect Our Frogs from Chemicals
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      • EPA Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division (Eric R. Olson)
      • Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
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    Caleb Laieski
    Phoenix, AZ
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In recognition of "Save The Frogs Day" on April 29, join the Center for Biological Diversity in calling on the EPA to ban atrazine, a pesticide highly toxic to frogs and other wildlife.

Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the United States. Recent research shows that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that chemically castrates and feminizes male frogs at concentrations 30 times lower than levels allowed by the EPA.

Please use the form below to tell the EPA to ban atrazine, or at least reevaluate the chemical based on recent studies demonstrating significant human and wildlife health concerns. Act today.

Photo and Action Credit: Center for Biological Diversity

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Protect Our Frogs from Atrazine

Dear Decision Maker

Numerous studies have definitively linked pesticides and herbicides with significant developmental, neurological and reproductive damage to amphibians. Pesticide contamination can cause deformities, abnormal immune system functions, diseases, injury and death.

Studies by Dr. Tyrone Hayes at the University of California show that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that interferes with reproduction and "assaults male sexual development." Dr. Hayes demonstrated that atrazine chemically castrates and feminizes male frogs at concentrations 30 times lower than levels allowed by the EPA. Although exposure levels as low as 0.1 parts per billion (ppb) result in frog hermaphrodites, the agency's atrazine criterion for the "protection of aquatic life" is 12 ppb.

In light of these unacceptable impacts, I am writing to ask the EPA to ban atrazine. At a minimum, the agency must reevaluate the impacts of atrazine on frogs and other wildlife in light of recent studies, including those by Dr. Hayes.


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