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A Victory for the Birds
On August 3, 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to ban most uses of the deadly pesticide carbofuran -- a substance that has been responsible for millions of bird fatalities, has poisoned farm workers and even been linked to the deaths of peanut farmers in Senegal.

Defenders’ supporters were instrumental to winning this decades-old fight. In the lead-up to the decision:
  • More than 20,000 supporters sent messages to the EPA urging the agency to get this deadly product off the market, off our crops and out of our drinking water.
  • More than one thousand took time out of their busy schedules to actually call the EPA’s office and urge the agency to not let corporate profits trump concerns over carbofuran’s safety.
  • Hundreds called FMC Corporation’s corporate headquarters urging them to let EPA do its job and stop trying to delay action on this deadly pesticide. FMC is the company that makes carbofuran.
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