Grow Safe: Non-Toxic Missoula

Toxic Pesticides & Their Role in the Sixth Mass Extinction — Montana Climate Stories By: Lauris Reintjes Species are going extinct 100, 1,000, some estimate 10,000 times faster than they should. This spike in the background extinction rate is called the Sixth Mass Extinction and is threatening every species on Earth, even those driving it. Lauris Reintjes, a high school student in

Check out this powerful piece from Families for a Livable Climate's Montana Climate Stories, exploring toxic pesticides and their alarming role in the sixth mass extinction.

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Exposure to combination of pesticides increases childhood cancer risk – study Study on cancer data in US agricultural heartland finds children more at risk than if exposed to just one pesticide

A new study links pesticides like those applied in Trimec (2,4-D, dicamba, mecoprop-p) to childhood cancer. Yet, Missoula still sprays them where our children play. Tell Missoula City we want an organic land care policy NOW!
👉 Call City Council (406-552-6012)!
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2025 Action Center & Bill Tracker - Montana Environmental Information Center - MEIC Easily take actions like contacting your representatives and committees, sending a letter to the editor, and sharing with friends and family.  Legislature Links: Call to leave a message for legislator...

Contact your MT Representative and ask them to vote NO on HB522. This bill would protect pesticide manufacturers when their product harms public health. Pesticides harm pollinators and humans.

HB 522 would provide insurmountable immunity to pesticide manufacturers when they cause harm.

Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks

Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests.

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Scientists issue "call to arms" to protect children's health from chemicals causing disease By Carey Gillam Children are suffering and dying from diseases that emerging scientific research links to chemical exposures, findings that require urgent revamping of laws around the world, accordin...

A new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine shares dangers of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and plastics.

“The evidence is so overwhelming and the effects of manufactured chemicals are so disruptive for children, that inaction is no longer an option”