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</div><div>=</div><div>bio fortified:</div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Steve Savage has worked with various aspects of agricultural technology for more than 35 years. He has a PhD in plant pathology and his varied career included Colorado State University<b>, DuPont,</b> and the bio-control start-up, Mycogen. He is an independent consultant working with a wide variety of clients on topics including biological control, biotechnology, crop protection chemicals, and more. Steve writes and speaks on food and agriculture topics (Applied Mythology blog) and does a bi-weekly</span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;podcast called POP Agriculture for the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CropLife Foundation.</span></b></div><div><p class="print-title"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></span></p><p class="print-title"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ew 220</font></span></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Poor people in developing countries are far more likely to suffer from exposure to pesticides classified as having high hazard to human health or the environment, according to new data that Unearthed analyzed.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The analysis shows that the world's top five pesticide makers are making billions, accounting for more than 36 percent of their income, from chemicals that are proven to hazards to humans and the environment and are contributing to the precipitous demise of bee populations, as Unearthed reported.</b></font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The researchers found that the sale of these highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), disproportionately occurred in poorer nations, which often have fewer regulations than industrialized nations,</span>&nbsp;according to The Guardian. In India, for example, sales of HHPs were nearly 60 percent, while in the UK it was just 11 percent.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The report from the investigative team at Unearthed focused on the practices of Bayer, BASF, Corteva (formerly Dow and DuPont), FMC and Syngenta, which are continuing to sell HHPs like neonicotinoids and glufosinate that have been banned in other parts of the world</b>, according to the produce industry publication Fresh Produce Journal.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unearthed dove into data collected by Phillips McDougall, the leading agribusiness analysts, from buyer surveys that concentrated on the best sellers in the top 43 pesticide buying countries, as The Guardian reported.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>While regulations have stopped the sale of certain pesticides in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, it has hardly slowed down chemical companies, which sold $4.8 billion worth of products containing HHPs in 2018,&nbsp;</b>as The Guardian reported. guk] Bayer called the analysis "misleading" but did not offer proof of that assessment.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since the investigation focused on just 43 countries, it covered less than half of the companies' global sales. That suggests that the companies actually made billions more from pesticides that regulatory agencies have said pose hazards like acute poisoning or chronic illness in people, or high toxicity to bees and other wildlife, according to Unearthed.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The investigation found that pesticide manufacturers sold the majority of its highly hazardous pesticide in low- and middle-income countries like Brazil and India, where experts say the risks posed by using these chemicals are greatest</b>, according to Unearthed. The biggest market for HHPs were for corn and soya crops.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">About a quarter of sales were from products known to be human carcinogens or dangerous to reproductive health.&nbsp;</b>Another 10 percent were toxic to bees. An additional 4 percent of chemicals sold are acutely toxic to humans. Every year, nearly 200,000 suicides are linked to pesticide poisoning, almost entirely in developing countries, according to The Guardian.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"This investigation shows that there is a huge disconnect between what those companies are saying in the international policy arena and what they are actually doing," Meriel Watts, a senior science and policy advisor to the Pesticide Action Network, said to Unearthed.</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Baskut Tuncak, the United Nations' special rapporteur</b>&nbsp;on toxic substances and human rights, told Unearthed, "There is nothing sustainable about the widespread use of highly hazardous pesticides for agriculture."</font></p><p class="print-title"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></span></p><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Whether they poison workers, extinguish biodiversity, persist in the environment, or accumulate in a mother's breast milk, these are unsustainable, cannot be used safely, and should have been phased out of use long ago," Tuncak said....</font></font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">220 yay</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">m<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=4K1jmRi7Jy1snj0F009udQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>ajor chemical company discontinues brain-damaging&nbsp;pesticide</strong></a></font></font></font></font></div><p class="print-title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=fJnxeWPWgRzxaG83PFl5OQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The largest producer of chlorpyrifos in the United States announced it will stop selling the nerve agent pesticide, which is linked to brain damage in children. Yet the Trump administration still refuses to ban it entirely, leaving many&nbsp;vulnerable.</font></a></font></font></p><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref many lnx grafs</font></p><p>uneaRTHED</p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">INVESTIGATION</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A tea plantation worker sprays pesticides at Tata's Periakanal estate in Kerala, India. Photo: Vivek M. / Greenpeace</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Revealed: The pesticide giants making billions on toxic and bee-harming chemicals</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Groundbreaking joint investigation reveals enormous sales of ‘highly hazardous pesticides’ by leading members of the CropLife International lobby group</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The world’s five biggest pesticide manufacturers are making more than a third of their income from leading products selling chemicals that pose serious hazards to human health and the environment</b>, a joint investigation by Unearthed and Public Eye has found.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Analysis of a huge database of 2018’s top-selling “crop protection products” has revealed the world’s leading agrochemical companies made more than 35% of their sales from pesticides classed as “highly hazardous” to people, animals or ecosystems.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The investigation identified billions of dollars of income for agrochemical giants BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC and Syngenta from chemicals found by regulatory authorities to pose health hazards like cancer or reproductive failure.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It also found more than a billion dollars of their sales came from chemicals – some now banned in European markets – that are highly toxic to bees. Over two thirds of these sales were made in low- and middle-income countries like Brazil and India.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By far the most valuable markets for the highly hazardous pesticides sold by these companies were the commodity crops soya and corn, grown in large part to provide animal feed for the meat industry.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Visualisations by Nadieh Bremer]</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Industry database</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The database, obtained from leading agribusiness intelligence firm Phillips McDougall, covers $23.3bn in pesticide sales across 43 different countries.&nbsp;</b>These sales represent the leading products in the world’s highest-spending pesticide markets, and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;amount to around 40% of the global agrochemical market.&nbsp;</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unearthed and Public Eye, an NGO that investigates human rights abuses by Swiss companies, combed this dataset for sales of chemicals on the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International list of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The investigation found that close to half (41%) of the leading products of the agrochemical giants BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC and Syngenta contained at least one HHP.</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is a huge disconnect between what those companies are saying and what they are actually doing</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Between them these companies control close to two thirds of the global agrochemicals market, and&nbsp;<b style="">comprise five out of six members of the influential lobby group CropLife International.&nbsp;</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Of the $13.4bn of sales by the CropLife companies in the dataset, $4.8bn went on chemicals found by regulatory agencies to pose hazards like acute poisoning or chronic illness in people, or high toxicity to bees and other wildlife.</b>&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The group’s full annual income from these chemicals will be billions of dollars greater, because the data analysed covered less than half of total global sales.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The investigation’s key findings include that:</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The CropLife</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> members made 10% of their leading products income ($1.3bn) from chemicals classed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as highly toxic to bees</span>.<b>&nbsp;These include neonicotinoids produced by Germany’s Bayer and Switzerland-based Syngenta, which were permanently banned from outdoor use in the European Union in 2018. Brazil was their main market for these chemicals.</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>CropLife members made almost $3bn (22% of sales) from chemicals found by regulators to pose chronic health hazards.</b> Among their top sellers were BASF’s weedkiller glufosinate and Corteva’s fungicide cyproconazole, both classed by EU regulators as damaging to fertility, sexual function or the unborn child. But by far CropLife’s biggest seller was glyphosate, classed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a “probable human carcinogen”. Glyphosate manufacturer Bayer and various regulators have rejected this classification.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CropLife members made $596m (4%) of sales from pesticides classed as highly toxic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) or as fatal if inhaled. Syngenta accounted for a large majority of these sales, with its top sellers including paraquat, a herbicide so toxic that a single sip can kill, which has long been banned in Europe and Switzerland.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The CropLife group made the majority of its highly hazardous pesticide sales in low- and middle-income countries like Brazil and India, where experts say the risks posed by using these chemicals are greatest.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These companies’ biggest markets for highly hazardous pesticides were the commodity crops soya and corn. These two crops alone accounted for around half of CropLife HHP sales.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>These five companies alone accounted for almost half (48%) of all HHPs identified in the Phillips McDougall database.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Meriel Watts, a senior science and policy advisor to PAN, told Unearthed: “This investigation shows that there is a huge disconnect between what those companies are saying in the international policy arena and what they are actually doing.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>What is CropLife International?</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CropLife International is an influential trade association and lobby group for the world’s major agrochemical and agricultural biotech companies.<b>&nbsp;Its members Syngenta, Bayer Crop Science, BASF, Corteva Agriscience, and FMC</b>&nbsp;are the five biggest pesticide companies in the world by agrochemical turnover. CropLife’s sixth member is the Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical, the world’s 8th biggest pesticide company. Sumitomo is not included in this investigation.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In international negotiations on pesticide regulation, the CropLife International lobby group is a well-funded and influential voice. Its members include the five leading agrochemical companies by turnover, plus the Japanese company Sumitomo.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CropLife argues that HHPs are an “important tool to fight against crop losses” and should be used as a last resort to help farmers “produce enough food for a growing population”.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the group says the majority of HHPs sold in developing countries are not manufactured by its members, and that its own members have “led by example” with measures like training millions of people in risk reduction techniques, such as wearing protective equipment.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Soya, corn and cotton make Brazil world leader for hazardous pesticides</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">However, Baskut Tuncak, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on toxic substances and human rights, rejected the idea that the risks posed by HHPs could be managed safely.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The impacts are unquestionable, but the system is rigged so that they are also unprovable</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“There is nothing sustainable about the widespread use of highly hazardous pesticides for agriculture,” Tuncak told Unearthed. “Whether they poison workers, extinguish biodiversity, persist in the environment, or accumulate in a mother’s breast milk, these are unsustainable, cannot be used safely, and should have been phased out of use long ago.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unearthed and Public Eye’s investigation found that the CropLife companies made on average 27% of sales income from HHPs in high-income countries; but for low- and middle-income countries the proportion rose to 45%. In their most important LMIC markets, Brazil and India, HHPs made up 49% and 59% of sales respectively.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tuncak commented: “We are in the midst of an invisible explosion of pesticide use in low-and middle-income countries that are ill-equipped to manage such hazards.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Governments do not have enough capacity to monitor conditions on countless farms and plantations, analyse food and environmental samples, track the health of seasonal and migrant workers, investigate allegations of gross misconduct on farms and plantations, or verify the integrity of the information being provided by industry-funded scientists.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“From the testimonies of workers to the collapse of biodiversity, the impacts are unquestionable, but the system is rigged so that they are also unprovable.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CropLife itself says that its members reviewed their entire portfolios between 2015 and 2016 and concluded that only 15% of their products were HHPs.&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Further, they found that 10% were HHPs “that can be used safely and responsibly” and only 2.5% “required risk mitigation measures or were withdrawn from the market”.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What are highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs)?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) define HHPs as “pesticides that are acknowledged to present particularly high levels of acute or chronic hazards to health or the environment according to internationally accepted classification systems”. Environmental hazards include problems like water source contamination, or “disruption of ecosystem functions” like pollination. However, they have never produced a list of HHPs. To fill this gap Pesticide Action Network International produces the only consolidated list, which is based on classifications made by the WHO, the European Chemicals Agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and the US EPA.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CropLife </span>International declined to tell Unearthed which of its members’ products it classed as HHPs</b>. However, its director of international regulatory affairs Christoph Neumann said their analysis had probably differed because they used different criteria to the Pesticide Action Network for defining HHPS.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In particular the group objects to the use of what it calls “environmental” criteria by PAN.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The criteria cited by PAN are often environmental criteria that are not agreed or yet endorsed” by the FAO and the WHO, he explained.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Driven toward extinction</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The only detailed classifications the UN agencies have so far agreed for HHPs concern effects on human health, like acute poisoning or cancer.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This has led pesticide companies to argue that there are in effect no globally agreed standards for classing a pesticide as highly hazardous on environmental grounds.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This argument may not last. A 2019 publication by the FAO and the WHO suggests there are strong grounds for classing neonicotinoid insecticides as highly hazardous.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We are losing wildlife, particularly insects. The crisis is driven by a combination of factors but there is no doubt that pesticides are harming pollinators</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is, it states, a “rapidly growing body of evidence” that “existing levels of environmental contamination” by neonicotinoids “are causing large-scale adverse effects on bees and other beneficial insects”.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The need to severely restrict their use and prevent future registration is gaining a large consensus,” it continues. “The European Union has already issued a complete and permanent ban on all outdoor uses of the three most commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides: clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Three quarters of the world’s food crops depend at least in part on pollinators, and a growing number of pollinator species worldwide are being “driven towards extinction”, according to a global 2016 study.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">UN special rapporteur Baskut Tuncak told Unearthed that the threat neonicotinoid pesticides “present to our food security and our biodiversity is a human rights concern, in and of itself”.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A dead bee. There is growing evidence that the use of neonicotinoids is adversely affecting bees on a large scale. Photo: Greenpeace</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The neonicotinoid thiamethoxam was Syngenta’s biggest selling HHP in 2018, our investigation found, accounting for 7% of the company’s sales ($242.5m). Similarly, imidacloprid was in Bayer’s top ten biggest selling HHPs, with sales of $101m. In both cases, the main market was Brazil – a country that hosts up to 20% of the world’s remaining biodiversity.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition to these neonicotinoids, Unearthed and Public Eye identified a further 37 chemicals sold by the CropLife companies that are classed as highly toxic to bees.&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among them were chlorfenapyr and fipronil – another chemical linked to mass bee deaths – manufactured by the German chemicals giant BASF.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Syngenta and BASF both declined to comment directly for this story. Syngenta – which was responsible for close to half (42%) of CropLife’s $1.3bn of bee-toxic pesticide sales – has recently argued that journalists are “overstating the science that clearly exists” on insect declines.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">However, University of Sussex biology professor Dave Goulson told Unearthed: “There is overwhelming evidence that we are in the middle of a biodiversity crisis, with extinction roughly 1,000 times the natural rate.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We are losing wildlife, particularly insects. The crisis is driven by a combination of factors but there is no doubt that pesticides are harming pollinators.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The most common category of hazard in the CropLife members’ top sellers is chronic health effects like cancer, birth defects, or endocrine disruption.&nbsp;</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chemicals classed as posing these hazards accounted for $3bn (22%) of the CropLife sales we analysed, and seven of the group’s top ten HHPs.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is absolutely clear that glyphosate can cause cancers in experimental animals</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>By far the biggest of these was glyphosate,</b>&nbsp;the world’s most popular weedkiller, which accounted for $1.1bn of CropLife sales. Bayer alone accounted for $840m of those sales, as a result of its controversial 2018 takeover of Roundup manufacturer Monsanto.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A spokesman for Bayer Crop Science told Unearthed it was “incorrect” to class the herbicide as highly hazardous simply on the strength of its IARC classification as a “probable human carcinogen”.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He added that “leading health regulators around the world” – including the USEPA and the European Food Safety Authority – had “repeatedly concluded that our glyphosate-based products can be used safely as directed and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic”.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glyphosate is currently authorised in the EU until 2022, but various countries including Germany have announced their intention to ban it by 2023 even if the EU extends its licence.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris Portier, a former director of the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry who worked on the IARC’s review of glyphosate, said he believed the agency’s classification was “exactly right”. “It is absolutely clear that glyphosate can cause cancers in experimental animals,” he told Unearthed.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“And the human evidence for an association between glyphosate and cancer is also there, predominantly for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the US, which is Bayer’s biggest glyphosate market according to our investigation, the company is facing lawsuits from tens of thousands of plaintiffs who allege Roundup gave them cancer. Fortune magazine recently reported that the company may anticipate spending $10bn to resolve current and future claims.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pesticides are sprayed form a helicopter over vineyards in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Photo: Getty</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The CropLife members’ highly hazardous top ten also includes $336m sales of the herbicide glufosinate, $245m of the fungicide cyproconazole, and $191m of the fungicide epoxiconazole, all of which are classed as “reproductive toxicants” in the EU, believed capable of damaging fertility, sexual function, or the unborn child.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Many HHPs have now been phased out in the EU,&nbsp;</b>which has some of the toughest pesticide regulations in the world. That, however, is not the case for BASF’s epoxiconazole, which includes Germany and the UK among its four most important markets, the investigation found.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Elsewhere, the CropLife HHP top ten includes a clutch of chemicals manufactured and sold by European companies that have long been banned in their home markets.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among these are the herbicides paraquat and atrazine, both sold by several CropLife companies but mainly Syngenta. Both of these chemicals have been around since the 1960s, and are now banned in the EU and Switzerland.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Accidental or deliberate ingestion of even a small amount of paraquat is frequently fatal, and it is a leading means of suicide in poor and rural areas where it remains available.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Atrazine was banned in Europe over concerns about groundwater contamination, but it is also classed by the EU as an endocrine disruptor, and researchers in the US have found it “wreaks havoc with the sex lives of male frogs”.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The top ten also shows Bayer selling $125m of acetochlor, a weedkiller that was banned in the EU over concerns about contamination of drinking water and genotoxicity. The EU ban also cited a “high acute risk” to birds from contaminated drinking water.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unearthed submitted detailed questions to all the companies mentioned in this article, but all except Bayer allowed Croplife to respond on their behalf.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A spokesman for Bayer Crop Science said the company did not agree with the classification of Bayer products as HHPs, because these products were neither classified as highly toxic to humans by the WHO, nor listed for control under the Stockholm Convention, the Rotterdam Convention, or the Montreal Protocol.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This amounts to just four of the eight categories of HHPs that have already been agreed by the FAO and the WHO. But the Bayer spokesman said that for the other categories – including pesticides proven or presumed to be mutagens, reproductive toxicants, or carcinogens – there was “currently no internationally responsible body for classification”.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He added that it was “not correct” that the Phillips McDougall data treated all Monsanto sales from 1 January 2018 as Bayer sales, when the takeover was completed on 7 June 2018.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After this story was published on 20 February 2020, Bayer published a statement expanding on why it disagreed with the classifications used by PAN. The statement added that Bayer was in the process of withdrawing products containing the pesticides methiocarb and carbendazim. Methiocarb is classed as acutely toxic by the WHO, while carbendazim is classed by the ECHA as presumed mutagen and reproductive toxicant.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CropLife International’s director of international regulatory affairs Christoph Neumann added that of the 19 chemicals our investigation identified as its members biggest selling HHPs, 12 were registered for use in the EU and 18 were registered for use in the US.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He continued: “CropLife International members support the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management and agree with the principle of pesticide risk reduction. We support countries to identify, and if necessary, remove HHPs from their markets.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He added: “When risk mitigation measures or good marketing practices are insufficient to ensure that the product can be handled without unacceptable risks to humans and the environment, then market withdrawal should be considered.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">How we did it</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This investigation is based on analysis of a huge dataset of pesticide sales from the agribusiness intelligence company Phillips McDougall. This company conducts detailed market research all over the world and sells databases and intelligence to pesticide companies. The data covers around 40% of the $57.6bn global market for agricultural pesticides in 2018. It covers 43 countries, which between them represent more than 90% of the global pesticide market by value. And it focuses on sales of leading products in the most valuable “market segments” (an example of a market segment would be insecticides for cotton in India).&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">We used the same methodology that pesticide industry analysts use to break up the value of product sales by active ingredient (in cases where a product included more than one active chemical), and we then established which of these chemicals had been classified by recognised authorities as posing environmental hazards like toxicity to bees, or hazards to humans, like acute toxicity, or chronic exposure risks like cancer.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For the final stage we used the 2019 highly hazardous pesticides list created by Pesticide Action Network International, which collates all pesticides that have been ascribed one of these hazard categories by the World Health Organisation, the European Chemicals Agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, or the US Environmental Protection Agency.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2018 the agrochemicals company Monsanto was taken over by Bayer. The Phillips McDougall data treats all Monsanto sales in the early part of 2018 as Bayer sales.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Any reference to the group of CropLife companies or CropLife members in this article refers only to BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, FMC, and Syngenta.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Visualisations by Nadieh Bremer / Visual Cinnamon</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update: This story was updated at 1.35pm on 20 Feb 2020, to add details of Bayer’s supplementary statement.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was slated to hold four days of public meetings, Oct. 18-21, focused on essentially one question: Is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/iarc-scientist-reaffirms-glyphosates-link-to-cancer-as-monsantos-reque-1906676980.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">glyphosate</a>, the world's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/monsantos-glyphosate-most-heavily-used-weed-killer-in-history-1882164311.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">most widely used</a>&nbsp;herbicide, safe?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">However, the EPA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meetings&nbsp;<a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0385-0380" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">were "postponed</a>," just four days before they were suppose to meet, after intense lobbying by the agrichemical industry, including&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-to-be-put-on-trial-for-crimes-against-nature-and-humanity-1882128925.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">Monsanto</a>. The industry first fought to keep the meetings from being held at all,&nbsp;<a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CropLife-comment-SAP-08-24-16.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">and argued</a>&nbsp;that if they were held, several leading international experts should be excluded from participating, including "any person who has publicly expressed an opinion regarding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As the meetings drew near,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.croplifeamerica.org/who-we-are/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">CropLife America</a>, which represents the interests of Monsanto and other agribusinesses, specifically took issue with at least two scientists chosen for the panel, alleging the experts might be unfavorably biased against industry interests. On Oct. 12, the group&nbsp;<a href="http://191hmt1pr08amfq62276etw2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CLA-Comments-on-SAP-Disqualification-10-12-16.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">sent a letter</a>&nbsp;to the EPA calling for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cancer.org/research/acsresearchers/kenneth-portier-phd" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">Dr. Kenneth Portier</a>&nbsp;of the American Cancer Society to be more deeply scrutinized for any "pre-formed conclusions" about glyphosate. More notably, CropLife called for leading epidemiologist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-10/documents/fqpa_srb_panel_member_biosketches_oct_2016.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">Dr. Peter Infante</a>&nbsp;to be completely disqualified from panel participation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">"EPA should replace Dr. Infante with an epidemiologist without such patent bias," CropLife told the EPA. The chemical industry group said Infante was unlikely to give industry-sponsored research studies the credibility the industry believes they deserve. CropLife said Infante has testified in the past for plaintiffs in chemical exposure cases against Monsanto.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">Croplife also argued that because Infante was the "only epidemiologist on the glyphosate SAP" he would have enhanced influence in the evaluation of epidemiological data about&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/does-glyphosate-cause-cancer-1891129191.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">glyphosate and cancer</a>. The CropLife letter was dated Oct. 12 and by Oct. 14, the EPA announced it was looking for additional epidemiology expertise to ensure "robust representation from that discipline." The EPA also said one panelist had voluntarily departed, though the agency refused to say who that panelist was.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Challenging Infante's role is a gutsy move. After all, Infante spent 24 years working for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration helping determine cancer risks to workers during the development of standards for toxic substances, including&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/asbestos-industry-knew-and-kept-secret-for-decades-that-their-product--1891149266.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">asbestos</a>, arsenic and formaldehyde.</b>&nbsp;His resume includes a stint at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health where he conducted epidemiological studies related to carcinogens, and he has served as an expert consultant in epidemiology for several world bodies, including the EPA and the World Trade Organization.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">According to sources close to the situation, Infante remains a panelist as of this week, but there is no certainty when the meetings might be rescheduled, and what the panel membership might look like when they are rescheduled. The EPA has refused to discuss who remains on the panel, but some onlookers believe that the EPA was clearly bowing to agrichemical industry interests.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">"This is outrageous. The industry wants to say that our own government scientists, the top ones in their fields, aren't good enough for these panels," said Michael Hansen, senior staff scientist at the Consumers Union. "If the EPA wants to add extra epidemiologists that is great but why didn't they do it before? They are doing this because of pressure from industry."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">The industry clearly has much at stake, as does the public. Glyphosate is the key ingredient in Monsanto's branded Roundup herbicides as well as herbicides marketed by numerous agrichemical companies around the world. It is also the key to what has been 20 years of sales of genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant crops developed by Monsanto. The future sales of both the chemical and the crops are being jeopardized by the mounting&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/does-monsantos-glyphosate-cause-cancer-1882118579.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">concerns that glyphosate can cause cancer</a>&nbsp;and other illnesses or disease.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scientists around the world have been raising red flags for years over worrisome research findings, and last year the International Agency of Research on Cancer, said&nbsp;<a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-09.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">glyphosate was a probable human carcinogen</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. More than&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.schmidtlaw.com/roundup-lawsuits-centralized-in-mdl-in-northern-california/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">three dozen lawsuits have been filed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">against Monsanto by people claiming Roundup gave them non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and both European and U.S. regulators are evaluating the chemical for continued use.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since the International Agency of Research on Cancer&nbsp;classification, Monsanto has asked the EPA to back industry assurances that glyphosate is safe, and so far, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/mistaken-release-of-glyphosate-report-raises-questions-over-epas-ties--1891128830.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">EPA has done exactly that</a>, issuing a series of reports and memos that dovetail with Monsanto's position</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Monsanto also has sought to bolster arguments for glyphosate's safety by pointing to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Glyphosate&SeriesKey=itxc20&startPage=&sortBy=Ppub" target="blank" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">supportive research papers</a>&nbsp;published in late September in&nbsp;<b>Critical Reviews in Toxicology.</b>&nbsp;Monsanto hired the group that arranged for the panel, and most of the 16 scientists involved are former Monsanto employees or Monsanto consultants. At least one,<b>&nbsp;Gary Williams,</b>&nbsp;has also consulted for Monsanto on litigation matters involving glyphosate.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">It seems more than a little hypocritical that those scientists are presented as credible by the industry, but scientists like Infante and Portier are said to be unfit to advise the EPA because of suspected bias. Like Infante, Portier has a long track record as an independent scientist. He is vice president of the Statistics & Evaluation Center at the American Cancer Society. He has participated in more than 60 other SAP meetings and has served on expert and advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Toxicology Program, and the World Health Organization Food and Agriculture Organization.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman">Portier also would not comment about the industry concerns about him, the postponement or changes to the makeup of the SAP, other than to say that as of today, he remains on the panel.&nbsp;EPA said it is "working to reschedule as soon as possible." But the delay and the maneuvering by industry to influence panel participation does little to bolster consumer confidence for the likelihood of an objective outcome.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>CropLife America</b>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trade_association" title="Trade association" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">trade association</a>&nbsp;representing the manufacturers of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. It was formerly known as the American Crop Protection Association, and before that as the National Agricultural Chemicals Association.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife America's rhetoric, and its name, indicates a shift in the pesticide industry's rhetoric and approach to public relations in the last decade. "CropLife America's mission," says its website, "is to foster the interests of the general public and CropLife America member companies by promoting innovation and the environmentally sound manufacture, distribution and use of crop protection and production technologies for safe, high-quality, affordable and abundant food, fiber and other crops."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pesticide industry hopes to be known as the "crop protection" industry. The image it presents is one of a hi-tech, efficient, responsible, and green industry that is already thoroughly regulated to assure the safety of its products. While the industry quietly pursues an anti-regulatory agenda to assure no pesticides would be removed from the market, its trade association claims its aim is to "promote increasingly responsible, science-driven legislation and regulation."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agricultural chemicals industry's new public face closely resembles the public image of the chemical industry's largest trade group, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Chemistry Council</a>, under the umbrella of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Care" title="Responsible Care" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Responsible Care</a>."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2002, CropLife America launched a public relations campaign that emphasized the everyday uses of pesticides and ag biotech, which it says the public often overlooks. This included safe food, and protecting homes and schools, it said. "For too long our industry had focused exclusively on promoting our successes in safety assessment and management," said CropLife president&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_Vroom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay Vroom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jay Vroom</a>. "These messages, including rigorous testing and EPA regulations, are valid and continue to resonate, but they are not enough," said Vroom. (Chemical Week; New York; Apr 10, 2002, volume 164, issue 15, p.5)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CropLife shares office space with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Industry_for_a_Sound_Environment" title="Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment</a>&nbsp;(RISE), </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a lobbying and public relations trade organization for the pesticide and fertilizer industry.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2004, CropLife poured funding into a campaign to defeat a Mendocino County ballot initiative - known as Measure H - that would make the country the first to ban genetically engineered crops. In the lead up the the vote CropLife contributed over $500,000 - more than seven times that of the initiative supporters - to defeat the proposal.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;Despite the massive campaign against the initiative, the bio-tech industry suffered a humiliating defeat. The measure passed by a margin of 56% to 43%.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Els Cooperrider, the owner of a Ukiah organic brew pub and a champion of the initiative told the Press Democrat "passage of Measure H is just the beginning. We're the first county, but the revolution is just starting".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CropLife America is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC). It is a member of its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;CropLife America Senior Director of Government Affairs Jeff Case is co-chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee<sup id="cite_ref-EEACharlotte_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEACharlotte-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEAScottsdale_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEAScottsdale-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;as of 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><table style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(201, 215, 240); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(41, 102, 184);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About ALEC</font></th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC</a>&nbsp;is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Lobbying_Activities"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lobbying Activities</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012 lobbying data:</font></p><table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><tbody><tr><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lobbying Firm</font></th><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amount Reported</font></th><th width="1000" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issue</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alpine_Group" title="Alpine Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alpine Group</font></a></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 Reauthorization of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act S. 3240, Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012, Issues relating to the implementation of the Food Safety Quality Protection Act of 1996 relating to the use and approval of crop protection chemicals, Toxic Substances Control Act H.R. 553, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement of 2011 H.R. 901, Chemical Facility Security Improvement Act of 2011.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bergeson%26_Campbell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bergeson & Campbell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bergeson & Campbell</font></a></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$40,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues relating to the Farm Bill and USDA conservation programs, Issues relating to NPDES permits for aquatic pesticides and "Waters of the U.S." guidance. Issues relating to pesticide use and registration.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cornerstone Government Affairs</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$20,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry user fees, and FIFRA and Food Quality Protection Act.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Croplife America</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,040,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 901, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Security Authorization Act of 2011 H.R. 908, Full Implementation of the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011 H.R. 916, Continuing Chemical Facilities <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011</span> S. 473, Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011, S. 847, A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, and for other purposes H.R. 910, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 S. 482, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011</font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1363, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 44, Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 48, Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments of 2011 H Con. Res 34, FY 2012 Budget Resolution H.R. 1, Full Year Continuing Appropriations, 2011 H.R. 2112, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 H.R. 2584, Department of Interior, Enviornment, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2012 H.R. 2018, Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 S. 718, A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides H.R. 553, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement Act of 2011 H.R. 2521, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 1361, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 875, Drinking Water Right to Know Act S. 76, Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities from Disease Clusters Act H.R. 2596, CJS, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 S. 2245, Preserve the Waters of the United States Act</font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crowell & Moring LLp</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$40,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advice and counsel of pesticide regulatory matters including application of Clean Water Act permitting requirements to pesticide applications (H.R. 872), and US EPA's Clean Water Act guidance related to "Waters of the US".</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EOP Group</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HR 872 - MPDES Permit Bill, H 1473, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2012, FY 2013 Concurrent Resolution Endangered Species effects on agriculture Pesticide Registration - Fees, proposals to register the use of pesticides in schools. Issues relating to the implementation of the Food Safety Quality Act of 1996, relating to the use and approval of crop pesticide chemicals.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Nichols Ashmore and Associates</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$160,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional consideration of issues associated with the development of the congressional budget for fiscal 2013 (H. Con. Res. 112) and how these deliberations might impact onf authorization and appropriations legislation addressing programs and issues of importance to the crop protection industry, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the General Farm Act and how those efforts and issues associated with those efforts and matters under consideration could impact on issues of importance to the crop protection industry in the United States. Administrative actions under consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and how those actions could impact on state agencies that have assumed enforcement responsibility under FIFRA or how those actions could impact on other matters of importance to the crop protection industry</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2008, Croplife spent $2 million on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lobbying</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;It spent $1.8 million in 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;$2.3 million in 2010, and 2.4 million in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="IRS_Reported_990_Forms"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IRS Reported 990 Forms</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2013_07_EO/53-0190293_990O_201112.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2011_12_EO/53-0190293_990O_201012.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2009-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2009 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2008-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2007-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2006-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2005-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2004-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2003-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003 CropLife America 990</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife America
1156 15th St. NW, Ste. 400
Washington DC 20005
Phone: 202-296-1585
Fax: 202-463-0474
Web:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.croplifeamerica.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.croplifeamerica.org</a></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_Resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Articles and Resources</font></span></h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related SourceWatch Articles</font></span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_International" title="CropLife International" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife International</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Industry-funded_organizations" title="Industry-funded organizations" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</font></a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_PRWatch_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related PRWatch Articles</font></span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brendan Fischer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" style="text-decoration: none; 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rosalinda Ahumada, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.modbee.com/local/story/10789789p-11566901c.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Herbicide donation just ducky: Wildlife refuge fights weeds on grand scale</a>",&nbsp;<i>Modesto Bee</i>, June 30, 2005.</font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/eea_2011%20AZ_snps_35-day_mailing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">RE: 35-DAY MAILING -- STATES AND NATION POLICY SUMMIT</a>&nbsp;(Nov.-Dec. 2011), organizational meeting agenda, October 27, 2011, documents made public by Common Cause, April 26, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/1-35-day_mailing_eea_final%20new%20orleans.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Natural Resources Task Force Committee Roster 2 As of 6/30/2011</a>, organizational task force membership directory, June 30, 2011, p. 17, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-EEACharlotte-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEACharlotte_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/35-day_mailing_eea_stfs.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">JOINT ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE 2012 SPRING TASK FORCE SUMMIT MAY 11, 2012 TENTATIVE AGENDA</a>, organizational document, April 6, 2012, p. 6, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-EEAScottsdale-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEAScottsdale_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/eea_2011%20AZ_snps_35-day_mailing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE 2011 STATES AND NATION POLICY SUMMIT NOVEMBER 30, 2011 TENTATIVE AGENDA</a>, organizational document, October 27, 2011, p. 5, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE TASK FORCE 35-Day Mailing - 2013 Annual Meeting, organizational document, July 3, 2013, on file with CMD.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Brendan Fischer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, August 7, 2013.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. Accessed July 27th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2009" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. Accessed July 27th, 2012.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. Accessed July 27th, 2012</span></font></li></ol></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Categories</a>:&nbsp;</font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:ALEC_Exposed" title="Category:ALEC Exposed" style="text-decoration: none; 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Bees, birds, butterflies and other beneficial insects pollinate more than 75 percent of the country’s flowering plants. Approximately one-third of the crops used to produce foods and beverages are dependent on pollinators, representing nearly $20 billion on crop value annually in the U.S. Many of the products our industry makes contribute to enhancing bee health, such as mite-fighting pesticides, drought mitigation technology to increase food for pollinators, and products that support increased bee forage. We work hard every day to improve pollinator health.</p></span><span class="showAllBackground" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Show complete background</strong></a></span></font></div><hr style="height: 1px; border-style: dashed none none; border-top-color: rgb(195, 188, 174); margin: 2em 0px; background-color: rgb(244, 239, 228);" /><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(76, 58, 14); overflow: hidden;"><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="CropLife " style="float: left; width: 80px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="96" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 96px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="America's " style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="105" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 105px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Position" style="float: left; width: 67px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="77" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 77px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon></h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none; font-weight: inherit;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a difference between natural bee loss and the condition referred to as "Colony Collapse Disorder." CCD is a clearly defined syndrome with specific symptoms, and scientists cannot attribute these losses to any singular cause.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and USDA-ARS Beltsville Honey Bee Lab&nbsp;<a href="http://ento.psu.edu/news/2010/losses-2009-10/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 0); text-decoration: none;">surveyed&nbsp;</a>beekeepers nationwide for colony loss data, and responding beekeepers attributed their losses to starvation (32%), weather (29%), weak colonies in the fall (14%), Mites (12%), and poor queens (10%). Only 5% of beekeepers attributed CCD as the major cause for their losses.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the recent studies which attempt to link neonicotinoids pesticides to CCD fail to recreate practical in-field solutions of pollinator exposure to pesticides or pollinator behavior, and ignore the many possible threats that bees face. Scientific literature examining the potential causes of CCD is incredibly varied and will need additional research.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When used properly and according to label, t<font color="#ff0000">here has been no demonstrated, extraordinary negative effect on bee health associated with use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides.</font> The allegations of these new studies of widespread harm to pollinators contradict nearly two decades of responsible use of these important pesticides on many millions of crop acres worldwide. In fact, some pesticides are used to protect bees from mites that can infest hives.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When used improperly, pesticides can be harmful to bees. As such, farmers and ranchers are trained to apply crop protection products strictly according to the label directions. The labels are created under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which carefully evaluates any potential environmental and health hazards.&nbsp;
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jay J. Vroom </span>is president and chief executive officer of CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. He has held this position since election by the Board of Directors in 1989 and has been re-elected each succeeding year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to CropLife America, Vroom served as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Fertilizer Solutions Association, in St. Louis, Mo. (now the Agricultural Retailers Association), a nonprofit trade association representing the interests of retailers on legislative and regulatory issues. He has also served as chief executive of the Merchants Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., which provides the Mississippi River maritime and harbor communities with valuable port information and services and began his professional career on the staff of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fertilizer Institute.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Vroom has testified numerous times before U.S. congressional and regulatory bodies,</b> and represents the U.S. plant science solution industry internationally.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vroom holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from the University of Illinois. Raised on an Illinois farm, he continues to have an active business interest in his family business.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Beau Greenwood </b>is executive vice president of government relations and public affairs at CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. In this role, Greenwood heads the association’s national and state advocacy efforts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to joining CropLife America, Greenwood served in a variety of agriculture policy capacities on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. Most recently, he served as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">chief of staff to <font color="#ff0000">Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Fred Hatfield</font> during the Bush Administration</span>. His initial appointment with the Commission was as director of congressional affairs during the Clinton Administration, where he helped shape policy and direct legislative strategy<font color="#ff0000"> cumulating in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which modernized U.S. futures and other derivatives trading.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While a member of the late-Senator Howell Heflin’s (D-AL) staff, Greenwood was instrumental in writing the 1996 Farm Bill and the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1996 Food Quality Protection Act.</span> He also served as professional staff on the House Agriculture Committee to then-Ranking Member Congressman Charlie Stenholm (D-TX).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to his work in agriculture community, Greenwood also served as director of &nbsp;government relations at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Washington, DC. &nbsp;His work was initially dominated by the recovery and response efforts of the Wall Street community after the 9/11 attacks followed by the wave of corporate scandals including Enron and Worldcom.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beau began his professional career as a staff assistant to then-House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Charlie Rose (D-NC).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A graduate of the George Washington University, Greenwood also attended Texas A&M University.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>William F. &nbsp;Kuckuck </b>is Executive Vice President and COO for CropLife America. &nbsp;He is also president of CropLife America’s educational and research arm, CropLife Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization designed to promote and advance sustainable agriculture, and the environmental-safe use of crop protection products and bio engineered agriculture. Prior to CropLife America, Kuckuck served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Farmland Trust (AFT), a Washington headquartered organization committed to helping farmers and ranchers protect their land, produce a healthier environment and build successful rural communities. Kuckuck’s professional experience includes several senior management positions in the food and agriculture sectors, having served as managing director of Marine Harvest Europe, president of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Tyson Foods International and group chairman of Ralston Purina A</span>sia/Pacific, among others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kuckuck, a contributing author of ‘The Future of North American Animal Agriculture,’ has also served as a lecturer on corporate governance at the University of Arkansas and was a featured speaker on the <b>Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kuckuck holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison in Agricultural Business Management and completed his Master of Business Administration degree at Rockhurst University. He has also completed executive programs in International Management and Logistics/Supply Chain Management. In addition, Kuckuck is an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dr. Barb Glenn </b>is Senior Vice President, Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, Washington, DC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She previously served as Managing Director of Animal Biotechnology in the Food & Agriculture Section at BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, in Washington, DC where she was responsible for leading the animal biotechnology program that seeks to provide industry leadership on science and regulatory issues. Prior to that, Barb was the Executive Vice President – Scientific Liaison for the Federation of Animal Science Societies, in Washington, DC. Barb was also a Research Dairy Scientist with the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD conducting research on energy and protein metabolism in lactating dairy cows.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barb received her Ph.D. in Ruminant Nutrition and Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from the University of Kentucky. In addition she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Maryland. Her family is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, Maryland Hereford Association, Maryland Jersey Cattle Association and Maryland Holstein Association. &nbsp;She is a member of the Howard County (MD) 4-H Foundation board of directors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachel G. Lattimore is senior vice president and general counsel for CropLife America. As a key member of the association’s strategic management team, Lattimore provides corporate governance support to the Board of Directors and serves as a spokesperson for the crop protection industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lattimore joined CropLife America in 2013 from the law firm <b>Arent Fox LLP,</b> where she had been a partner since 2003. She is recognized as an expert in a variety of highly-regulated business sectors such as pesticides, biotechnology, food safety and seed, and has direct experience in various litigation matters that span challenges such as federal regulation of ag biotechnology, pesticide data compensation and EPA enforcement actions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lattimore has authored numerous publications and presentations on issues as diverse as the <b>Food Safety Modernization Act,</b> expanding health and safety protection for infants and children and the precautionary principle and biotechnology.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Lattimore earned her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English from the University of North Carolina. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Douglas T. Nelson</b> is senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues for CropLife America. Prior to serving as CropLife America’s senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues, Dr. Nelson was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of CropLife America for 17 years. In addition to his current role, Dr. Nelson is also vice chair of CropLife Foundation and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., teaching courses on globalization and corporate law. Dr. Nelson is a member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Trade in Chemicals (ITAC3) and Intellectual Property (ITAC15) charged with advising the<b> U.S. Trade Representative</b> and the Secretary of Commerce on U.S. Trade Policy, including the ongoing TPP negotiations and the upcoming EU/US Free Trade negotiations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to CropLife America, Dr. Nelson served as assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of<b> Unilever </b>United States, Inc. in New York, N.Y. Other previous positions included acquisitions and divestitures counsel at Union Carbide Corporation in Danbury, Conn., and associate positions at the New York law firms of Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Coudert Brothers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Nelson is an appointed member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, which advises the U.S. trade representative and the Secretary of Commerce on intellectual property rights aspects of U.S. trade policy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Nelson holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., a master’s degree and Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, in New York, N.Y.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America</font></a><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CropLife America</b>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trade_association" title="Trade association" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">trade association</a>&nbsp;representing the manufacturers of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. It was formerly known as the American Crop Protection Association, and before that as the National Agricultural Chemicals Association.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife America's rhetoric, and its name, indicates a shift in the pesticide industry's rhetoric and approach to public relations in the last decade. "CropLife America's mission," says its website, "is to foster the interests of the general public and CropLife America member companies by promoting innovation and the environmentally sound manufacture, distribution and use of crop protection and production technologies for safe, high-quality, affordable and abundant food, fiber and other crops."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pesticide industry hopes to be known as the "crop protection" industry. The image it presents is one of a hi-tech, efficient, responsible, and green industry that is already thoroughly regulated to assure the safety of its products. While the industry quietly pursues an anti-regulatory agenda to assure no pesticides would be removed from the market, its trade association claims its aim is to "promote increasingly responsible, science-driven legislation and regulation."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agricultural chemicals industry's new public face closely resembles the public image of the chemical industry's largest trade group, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Chemistry Council</a>, under the umbrella of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Care" title="Responsible Care" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Responsible Care</a>."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2002, CropLife America launched a public relations campaign that emphasized the everyday uses of pesticides and ag biotech, which it says the public often overlooks. This included safe food, and protecting homes and schools, it said. "For too long our industry had focused exclusively on promoting our successes in safety assessment and management," said CropLife president&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_Vroom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay Vroom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jay Vroom</a>. "These messages, including rigorous testing and EPA regulations, are valid and continue to resonate, but they are not enough," said Vroom. (Chemical Week; New York; Apr 10, 2002, volume 164, issue 15, p.5)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife shares office space with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Industry_for_a_Sound_Environment" title="Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment</a>&nbsp;(RISE), a lobbying and public relations trade organization for the pesticide and fertilizer industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2004, CropLife poured funding into a campaign to defeat a Mendocino County ballot initiative - known as Measure H - that would make the country the first to ban genetically engineered crops. In the lead up the the vote CropLife contributed over $500,000 - more than seven times that of the initiative supporters - to defeat the proposal.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;Despite the massive campaign against the initiative, the bio-tech industry suffered a humiliating defeat. The measure passed by a margin of 56% to 43%.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Els Cooperrider, the owner of a Ukiah organic brew pub and a champion of the initiative told the Press Democrat "passage of Measure H is just the beginning. We're the first county, but the revolution is just starting".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife America is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC). It is a member of its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;CropLife America Senior Director of Government Affairs Jeff Case is co-chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee<sup id="cite_ref-EEACharlotte_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEACharlotte-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEAScottsdale_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEAScottsdale-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;as of 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><table style="vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(201, 215, 240);"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(41, 102, 184);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About ALEC</font></th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC</a>&nbsp;is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Lobbying_Activities"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lobbying Activities</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012 lobbying data:</font></p><table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: black; background: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lobbying Firm</font></th><th width="120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amount Reported</font></th><th width="1000" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issue</font></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alpine_Group" title="Alpine Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alpine Group</font></a></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 Reauthorization of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act S. 3240, Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012, Issues relating to the implementation of the Food Safety Quality Protection Act of 1996 relating to the use and approval of crop protection chemicals, Toxic Substances Control Act H.R. 553, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement of 2011 H.R. 901, Chemical Facility Security Improvement Act of 2011.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bergeson%26_Campbell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bergeson & Campbell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bergeson & Campbell</font></a></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$40,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues relating to the Farm Bill and USDA conservation programs, Issues relating to NPDES permits for aquatic pesticides and "Waters of the U.S." guidance. Issues relating to pesticide use and registration.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cornerstone Government Affairs</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$20,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry user fees, and FIFRA and Food Quality Protection Act.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Croplife America</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,040,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 901, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Security Authorization Act of 2011 H.R. 908, Full Implementation of the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011 H.R. 916, Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011 S. 473, Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011, S. 847, A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, and for other purposes H.R. 910, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 S. 482, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011</font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H.R. 1363, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 44, Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 48, Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments of 2011 H Con. Res 34, FY 2012 Budget Resolution H.R. 1, Full Year Continuing Appropriations, 2011 H.R. 2112, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 H.R. 2584, Department of Interior, Enviornment, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2012 H.R. 2018, Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 S. 718, A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides H.R. 553, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement Act of 2011 H.R. 2521, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 1361, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 875, Drinking Water Right to Know Act S. 76, Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities from Disease Clusters Act H.R. 2596, CJS, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 S. 2245, Preserve the Waters of the United States Act</font></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crowell & Moring LLp</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$40,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advice and counsel of pesticide regulatory matters including application of Clean Water Act permitting requirements to pesticide applications (H.R. 872), and US EPA's Clean Water Act guidance related to "Waters of the US".</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EOP Group</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$60,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HR 872 - MPDES Permit Bill, H 1473, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2012, FY 2013 Concurrent Resolution Endangered Species effects on agriculture Pesticide Registration - Fees, proposals to register the use of pesticides in schools. Issues relating to the implementation of the Food Safety Quality Act of 1996, relating to the use and approval of crop pesticide chemicals.</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Nichols Ashmore and Associates</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$160,000</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional consideration of issues associated with the development of the congressional budget for fiscal 2013 (H. Con. Res. 112) and how these deliberations might impact onf authorization and appropriations legislation addressing programs and issues of importance to the crop protection industry, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the General Farm Act and how those efforts and issues associated with those efforts and matters under consideration could impact on issues of importance to the crop protection industry in the United States. Administrative actions under consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and how those actions could impact on state agencies that have assumed enforcement responsibility under FIFRA or how those actions could impact on other matters of importance to the crop protection industry</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2008, Croplife spent $2 million on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lobbying</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;It spent $1.8 million in 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;$2.3 million in 2010, and 2.4 million in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="IRS_Reported_990_Forms"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IRS Reported 990 Forms</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2013_07_EO/53-0190293_990O_201112.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2011_12_EO/53-0190293_990O_201012.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2009-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2009 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2008-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2007-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2006-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2005-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2004-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004 CropLife America 990</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2003-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003 CropLife America 990</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CropLife America
1156 15th St. NW, Ste. 400
Washington DC 20005
Phone: 202-296-1585
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overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_Articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External Articles</font></span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rosalinda Ahumada, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.modbee.com/local/story/10789789p-11566901c.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Herbicide donation just ducky: Wildlife refuge fights weeds on grand scale</a>",&nbsp;<i>Modesto Bee</i>, June 30, 2005.</font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/eea_2011%20AZ_snps_35-day_mailing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">RE: 35-DAY MAILING -- STATES AND NATION POLICY SUMMIT</a>&nbsp;(Nov.-Dec. 2011), organizational meeting agenda, October 27, 2011, documents made public by Common Cause, April 26, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; 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width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Brendan Fischer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, August 7, 2013.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; 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Accessed July 27th, 2012</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2009" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. Accessed July 27th, 2012.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. 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Bees, birds, butterflies and other beneficial insects pollinate more than 75 percent of the country’s flowering plants. Approximately one-third of the crops used to produce foods and beverages are dependent on pollinators, representing nearly $20 billion on crop value annually in the U.S. Many of the products our industry makes contribute to enhancing bee health, such as mite-fighting pesticides, drought mitigation technology to increase food for pollinators, and products that support increased bee forage. We work hard every day to improve pollinator health.</p></span><span class="showAllBackground" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Show complete background</strong></a></span></font></div><hr style="height: 1px; border-style: dashed none none; border-top-color: rgb(195, 188, 174); margin: 2em 0px; background-color: rgb(244, 239, 228);" /><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(76, 58, 14); overflow: hidden;"><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="CropLife " style="float: left; width: 80px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="96" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 96px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="America's " style="float: left; width: 90px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="105" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 105px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Position" style="float: left; width: 67px; height: 18px; line-height: 1px !important; display: inline-block !important; position: relative !important; vertical-align: middle !important;"><canvas width="77" height="24" style="position: relative !important; width: 77px; height: 24px; top: -5px; left: -1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cufontext style="display: inline-block !important; height: 0px !important; overflow: hidden !important; text-indent: -10000in !important; width: 0px !important;" /></font></canvas></cufon></h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none outside none; font-weight: inherit;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a difference between natural bee loss and the condition referred to as "Colony Collapse Disorder." CCD is a clearly defined syndrome with specific symptoms, and scientists cannot attribute these losses to any singular cause.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and USDA-ARS Beltsville Honey Bee Lab&nbsp;<a href="http://ento.psu.edu/news/2010/losses-2009-10/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 0); text-decoration: none;">surveyed&nbsp;</a>beekeepers nationwide for colony loss data, and responding beekeepers attributed their losses to starvation (32%), weather (29%), weak colonies in the fall (14%), Mites (12%), and poor queens (10%). Only 5% of beekeepers attributed CCD as the major cause for their losses.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the recent studies which attempt to link neonicotinoids pesticides to CCD fail to recreate practical in-field solutions of pollinator exposure to pesticides or pollinator behavior, and ignore the many possible threats that bees face. Scientific literature examining the potential causes of CCD is incredibly varied and will need additional research.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When used properly and according to label, t<font color="#ff0000">here has been no demonstrated, extraordinary negative effect on bee health associated with use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides.</font> The allegations of these new studies of widespread harm to pollinators contradict nearly two decades of responsible use of these important pesticides on many millions of crop acres worldwide. In fact, some pesticides are used to protect bees from mites that can infest hives.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When used improperly, pesticides can be harmful to bees. As such, farmers and ranchers are trained to apply crop protection products strictly according to the label directions. The labels are created under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which carefully evaluates any potential environmental and health hazards.&nbsp;
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay J. Vroom is president and chief executive officer of CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. He has held this position since election by the Board of Directors in 1989 and has been re-elected each succeeding year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to CropLife America, Vroom served as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Fertilizer Solutions Association, in St. Louis, Mo. (now the Agricultural Retailers Association), a nonprofit trade association representing the interests of retailers on legislative and regulatory issues. He has also served as chief executive of the Merchants Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., which provides the Mississippi River maritime and harbor communities with valuable port information and services and began his professional career on the staff of the Fertilizer Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Vroom has testified numerous times before U.S. congressional and regulatory bodies,</b> and represents the U.S. plant science solution industry internationally.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vroom holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from the University of Illinois. Raised on an Illinois farm, he continues to have an active business interest in his family business.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beau Greenwood is executive vice president of government relations and public affairs at CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. In this role, Greenwood heads the association’s national and state advocacy efforts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to joining CropLife America, Greenwood served in a variety of agriculture policy capacities on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. Most recently, he served as chief of staff to <font color="#ff0000">Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Fred Hatfield</font> during the Bush Administration. His initial appointment with the Commission was as director of congressional affairs during the Clinton Administration, where he helped shape policy and direct legislative strategy<font color="#ff0000"> cumulating in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which modernized U.S. futures and other derivatives trading.&nbsp;</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While a member of the late-Senator Howell Heflin’s (D-AL) staff, Greenwood was instrumental in writing the 1996 Farm Bill and the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1996 Food Quality Protection Act.</span> He also served as professional staff on the House Agriculture Committee to then-Ranking Member Congressman Charlie Stenholm (D-TX).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to his work in agriculture community, Greenwood also served as director of &nbsp;government relations at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Washington, DC. &nbsp;His work was initially dominated by the recovery and response efforts of the Wall Street community after the 9/11 attacks followed by the wave of corporate scandals including Enron and Worldcom.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beau began his professional career as a staff assistant to then-House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Charlie Rose (D-NC).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A graduate of the George Washington University, Greenwood also attended Texas A&M University.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William F. &nbsp;Kuckuck is Executive Vice President and COO for CropLife America. &nbsp;He is also president of CropLife America’s educational and research arm, CropLife Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization designed to promote and advance sustainable agriculture, and the environmental-safe use of crop protection products and bio engineered agriculture. Prior to CropLife America, Kuckuck served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Farmland Trust (AFT), a Washington headquartered organization committed to helping farmers and ranchers protect their land, produce a healthier environment and build successful rural communities. Kuckuck’s professional experience includes several senior management positions in the food and agriculture sectors, having served as managing director of Marine Harvest Europe, president of Tyson Foods International and group chairman of Ralston Purina Asia/Pacific, among others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kuckuck, a contributing author of ‘The Future of North American Animal Agriculture,’ has also served as a lecturer on corporate governance at the University of Arkansas and was a featured speaker on the <b>Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kuckuck holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison in Agricultural Business Management and completed his Master of Business Administration degree at Rockhurst University. He has also completed executive programs in International Management and Logistics/Supply Chain Management. In addition, Kuckuck is an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Barb Glenn is Senior Vice President, Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, Washington, DC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She previously served as Managing Director of Animal Biotechnology in the Food & Agriculture Section at BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, in Washington, DC where she was responsible for leading the animal biotechnology program that seeks to provide industry leadership on science and regulatory issues. Prior to that, Barb was the Executive Vice President – Scientific Liaison for the Federation of Animal Science Societies, in Washington, DC. Barb was also a Research Dairy Scientist with the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD conducting research on energy and protein metabolism in lactating dairy cows.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barb received her Ph.D. in Ruminant Nutrition and Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from the University of Kentucky. In addition she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Maryland. Her family is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, Maryland Hereford Association, Maryland Jersey Cattle Association and Maryland Holstein Association. &nbsp;She is a member of the Howard County (MD) 4-H Foundation board of directors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachel G. Lattimore is senior vice president and general counsel for CropLife America. As a key member of the association’s strategic management team, Lattimore provides corporate governance support to the Board of Directors and serves as a spokesperson for the crop protection industry.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lattimore joined CropLife America in 2013 from the law firm <b>Arent Fox LLP,</b> where she had been a partner since 2003. She is recognized as an expert in a variety of highly-regulated business sectors such as pesticides, biotechnology, food safety and seed, and has direct experience in various litigation matters that span challenges such as federal regulation of ag biotechnology, pesticide data compensation and EPA enforcement actions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lattimore has authored numerous publications and presentations on issues as diverse as the <b>Food Safety Modernization Act,</b> expanding health and safety protection for infants and children and the precautionary principle and biotechnology.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Lattimore earned her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English from the University of North Carolina. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Douglas T. Nelson is senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues for CropLife America. Prior to serving as CropLife America’s senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues, Dr. Nelson was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of CropLife America for 17 years. In addition to his current role, Dr. Nelson is also vice chair of CropLife Foundation and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., teaching courses on globalization and corporate law. Dr. Nelson is a member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Trade in Chemicals (ITAC3) and Intellectual Property (ITAC15) charged with advising the<b> U.S. Trade Representative</b> and the Secretary of Commerce on U.S. Trade Policy, including the ongoing TPP negotiations and the upcoming EU/US Free Trade negotiations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to CropLife America, Dr. Nelson served as assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of<b> Unilever </b>United States, Inc. in New York, N.Y. Other previous positions included acquisitions and divestitures counsel at Union Carbide Corporation in Danbury, Conn., and associate positions at the New York law firms of Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Coudert Brothers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Nelson is an appointed member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, which advises the U.S. trade representative and the Secretary of Commerce on intellectual property rights aspects of U.S. trade policy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Nelson holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., a master’s degree and Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, in New York, N.Y.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>CropLife America</b>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trade_association" title="Trade association" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">trade association</a>&nbsp;representing the manufacturers of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. It was formerly known as the American Crop Protection Association, and before that as the National Agricultural Chemicals Association.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">CropLife America's rhetoric, and its name, indicates a shift in the pesticide industry's rhetoric and approach to public relations in the last decade. "CropLife America's mission," says its website, "is to foster the interests of the general public and CropLife America member companies by promoting innovation and the environmentally sound manufacture, distribution and use of crop protection and production technologies for safe, high-quality, affordable and abundant food, fiber and other crops."</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The pesticide industry hopes to be known as the "crop protection" industry. The image it presents is one of a hi-tech, efficient, responsible, and green industry that is already thoroughly regulated to assure the safety of its products. While the industry quietly pursues an anti-regulatory agenda to assure no pesticides would be removed from the market, its trade association claims its aim is to "promote increasingly responsible, science-driven legislation and regulation."</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The agricultural chemicals industry's new public face closely resembles the public image of the chemical industry's largest trade group, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Chemistry Council</a>, under the umbrella of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Care" title="Responsible Care" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Responsible Care</a>."</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">In 2002, CropLife America launched a public relations campaign that emphasized the everyday uses of pesticides and ag biotech, which it says the public often overlooks. This included safe food, and protecting homes and schools, it said. "For too long our industry had focused exclusively on promoting our successes in safety assessment and management," said CropLife president&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_Vroom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay Vroom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jay Vroom</a>. "These messages, including rigorous testing and EPA regulations, are valid and continue to resonate, but they are not enough," said Vroom. (Chemical Week; New York; Apr 10, 2002, volume 164, issue 15, p.5)</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">CropLife shares office space with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Responsible_Industry_for_a_Sound_Environment" title="Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment</a>&nbsp;(RISE), a lobbying and public relations trade organization for the pesticide and fertilizer industry.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">In March 2004, CropLife poured funding into a campaign to defeat a Mendocino County ballot initiative - known as Measure H - that would make the country the first to ban genetically engineered crops. In the lead up the the vote CropLife contributed over $500,000 - more than seven times that of the initiative supporters - to defeat the proposal.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;Despite the massive campaign against the initiative, the bio-tech industry suffered a humiliating defeat. The measure passed by a margin of 56% to 43%.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Els Cooperrider, the owner of a Ukiah organic brew pub and a champion of the initiative told the Press Democrat "passage of Measure H is just the beginning. We're the first county, but the revolution is just starting".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">CropLife America is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>&nbsp;(ALEC). It is a member of its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force" title="Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;CropLife America Senior Director of Government Affairs Jeff Case is co-chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee<sup id="cite_ref-EEACharlotte_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEACharlotte-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EEAScottsdale_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-EEAScottsdale-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;as of 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></p><table style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: top; border: 1px solid rgb(201, 215, 240);"><tbody><tr><th style="font-size: 18px; border: 1px solid rgb(64, 127, 212); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(41, 102, 184);">About ALEC</th></tr><tr><td><div style="padding: 2px 5px; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC</a>&nbsp;is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. 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Issues relating to pesticide use and registration.</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Cornerstone Government Affairs</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">$20,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Industry user fees, and FIFRA and Food Quality Protection Act.</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Croplife America</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">$1,040,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">H.R. 901, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Security Authorization Act of 2011 H.R. 908, Full Implementation of the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011 H.R. 916, Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011 S. 473, Continuing Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Security Act of 2011, S. 847, A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, and for other purposes H.R. 910, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 S. 482, Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">H.R. 1363, Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 44, Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011 HJ Res 48, Additional Continuing Appropriations Amendments of 2011 H Con. Res 34, FY 2012 Budget Resolution H.R. 1, Full Year Continuing Appropriations, 2011 H.R. 2112, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 H.R. 2584, Department of Interior, Enviornment, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2012 H.R. 2018, Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 S. 718, A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to improve the use of certain registered pesticides H.R. 553, Endocrine Disruptor Screening Enhancement Act of 2011 H.R. 2521, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 1361, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Exposure Elimination Act of 2011 S. 875, Drinking Water Right to Know Act S. 76, Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities from Disease Clusters Act H.R. 2596, CJS, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 S. 2245, Preserve the Waters of the United States Act</p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Crowell & Moring LLp</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">$40,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Advice and counsel of pesticide regulatory matters including application of Clean Water Act permitting requirements to pesticide applications (H.R. 872), and US EPA's Clean Water Act guidance related to "Waters of the US".</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">EOP Group</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">$60,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">HR 872 - MPDES Permit Bill, H 1473, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2012, FY 2013 Concurrent Resolution Endangered Species effects on agriculture Pesticide Registration - Fees, proposals to register the use of pesticides in schools. Issues relating to the implementation of the Food Safety Quality Act of 1996, relating to the use and approval of crop pesticide chemicals.</td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">James Nichols Ashmore and Associates</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">$160,000</td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Congressional consideration of issues associated with the development of the congressional budget for fiscal 2013 (H. Con. Res. 112) and how these deliberations might impact onf authorization and appropriations legislation addressing programs and issues of importance to the crop protection industry, Congressional efforts to reauthorize the General Farm Act and how those efforts and issues associated with those efforts and matters under consideration could impact on issues of importance to the crop protection industry in the United States. Administrative actions under consideration by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and how those actions could impact on state agencies that have assumed enforcement responsibility under FIFRA or how those actions could impact on other matters of importance to the crop protection industry</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">In 2008, Croplife spent $2 million on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lobbying</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;It spent $1.8 million in 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;$2.3 million in 2010, and 2.4 million in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="IRS_Reported_990_Forms">IRS Reported 990 Forms</span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2013_07_EO/53-0190293_990O_201112.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2011 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2011_12_EO/53-0190293_990O_201012.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2010 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2009-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2009 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2008-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2008 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2007-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2007 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2006-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2006 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2005-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2005 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2004-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2004 CropLife America 990</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:2003-CroplifeAmerica-IRS_99O.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">2003 CropLife America 990</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact">Contact</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">CropLife America
1156 15th St. NW, Ste. 400
Washington DC 20005
Phone: 202-296-1585
Fax: 202-463-0474
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margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Brendan Fischer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, August 7, 2013.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rebekah Wilce,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11300/atrazine-and-roots-alecs-state-data-quality-act" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Atrazine and the Roots of ALEC's State Data Quality Act</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, March 9, 2012.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Diane Farsetta,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2009/04/8347/corporate-think-tank-dives-water-policy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Corporate Think Tank Dives into Water Policy</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, April 28, 2009.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Diane Farsetta,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2004/06/2726/reading-writing-and-roundup-ready" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Reading, Writing and Roundup Ready</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, June 22, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Laura Miller,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2004/03/2461/gm-no" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">GM-NO?</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, March 1, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sheldon Rampton,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2002/09/1451/46-million-fight-biotech-food-labels" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">$4.6 Million to Fight Biotech Food Labels</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, September 29, 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Stauber,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2002/01/953/dont-call-us-toxic-call-us-croplife-america" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Don't Call Us Toxic, Call Us "CropLife America</a>,"&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, January 1, 2002.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_Articles">External Articles</span></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rosalinda Ahumada, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.modbee.com/local/story/10789789p-11566901c.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Herbicide donation just ducky: Wildlife refuge fights weeds on grand scale</a>",&nbsp;<i>Modesto Bee</i>, June 30, 2005.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/02gmo_b1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Biotech backers pile on cash in Mendocino: $150,000 to fight modified crop ban brings total to $500,000</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 2, 2004.</span></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/election_results/mendo_county.html#measures" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County: Measures</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 4, 2004.</span></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mike Geniella, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/vote04/local/03gmo_a1.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Mendocino County voters ban biotech crops: First county in U.S. to bar gene-altered farming</a>",&nbsp;<i>The Press Democrat</i>, March 3, 2004.</span></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/eea_2011%20AZ_snps_35-day_mailing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">RE: 35-DAY MAILING -- STATES AND NATION POLICY SUMMIT</a>&nbsp;(Nov.-Dec. 2011), organizational meeting agenda, October 27, 2011, documents made public by Common Cause, April 26, 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-EEANOLA-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEANOLA_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/1-35-day_mailing_eea_final%20new%20orleans.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Natural Resources Task Force Committee Roster 2 As of 6/30/2011</a>, organizational task force membership directory, June 30, 2011, p. 17, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-EEACharlotte-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEACharlotte_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/35-day_mailing_eea_stfs.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">JOINT ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE 2012 SPRING TASK FORCE SUMMIT MAY 11, 2012 TENTATIVE AGENDA</a>, organizational document, April 6, 2012, p. 6, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-EEAScottsdale-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-EEAScottsdale_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/eea_2011%20AZ_snps_35-day_mailing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE 2011 STATES AND NATION POLICY SUMMIT NOVEMBER 30, 2011 TENTATIVE AGENDA</a>, organizational document, October 27, 2011, p. 5, obtained and released by Common Cause April 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">American Legislative Exchange Council, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE TASK FORCE 35-Day Mailing - 2013 Annual Meeting, organizational document, July 3, 2013, on file with CMD.</span></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Brendan Fischer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12203/whats-alecs-agenda-its-40th-anniversary-meeting-chicago" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">What's on ALEC's Agenda for its 40th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago?</a>,&nbsp;<i>PRWatch</i>, August 7, 2013.</span></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2008" style="text-decoration: none; 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Accessed July 27th, 2012</span></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CropLife_America#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Opensecrets: Lobbying Profile for Croplife:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025187&year=2009" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Croplife</a>. 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Bees, birds, butterflies and other beneficial insects pollinate more than 75 percent of the country’s flowering plants. Approximately one-third of the crops used to produce foods and beverages are dependent on pollinators, representing nearly $20 billion on crop value annually in the U.S. Many of the products our industry makes contribute to enhancing bee health, such as mite-fighting pesticides, drought mitigation technology to increase food for pollinators, and products that support increased bee forage. 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CCD is a clearly defined syndrome with specific symptoms, and scientists cannot attribute these losses to any singular cause.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and USDA-ARS Beltsville Honey Bee Lab&nbsp;<a href="http://ento.psu.edu/news/2010/losses-2009-10/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 0); text-decoration: none;">surveyed&nbsp;</a>beekeepers nationwide for colony loss data, and responding beekeepers attributed their losses to starvation (32%), weather (29%), weak colonies in the fall (14%), Mites (12%), and poor queens (10%). Only 5% of beekeepers attributed CCD as the major cause for their losses.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Many of the recent studies which attempt to link neonicotinoids pesticides to CCD fail to recreate practical in-field solutions of pollinator exposure to pesticides or pollinator behavior, and ignore the many possible threats that bees face. Scientific literature examining the potential causes of CCD is incredibly varied and will need additional research.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">When used properly and according to label, t<font color="#ff0000">here has been no demonstrated, extraordinary negative effect on bee health associated with use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides.</font> The allegations of these new studies of widespread harm to pollinators contradict nearly two decades of responsible use of these important pesticides on many millions of crop acres worldwide. In fact, some pesticides are used to protect bees from mites that can infest hives.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.croplifeamerica.org/sites/all/themes/zen/croplife/images/icons/bullet.png); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">When used improperly, pesticides can be harmful to bees. As such, farmers and ranchers are trained to apply crop protection products strictly according to the label directions. The labels are created under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which carefully evaluates any potential environmental and health hazards.&nbsp;
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</div><div><div>Jay J. Vroom is president and chief executive officer of CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. He has held this position since election by the Board of Directors in 1989 and has been re-elected each succeeding year.</div><div>
</div><div>Prior to CropLife America, Vroom served as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Fertilizer Solutions Association, in St. Louis, Mo. (now the Agricultural Retailers Association), a nonprofit trade association representing the interests of retailers on legislative and regulatory issues. He has also served as chief executive of the Merchants Exchange of St. Louis, Mo., which provides the Mississippi River maritime and harbor communities with valuable port information and services and began his professional career on the staff of the Fertilizer Institute.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Vroom has testified numerous times before U.S. congressional and regulatory bodies,</b> and represents the U.S. plant science solution industry internationally.</div><div>
</div><div>Vroom holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from the University of Illinois. Raised on an Illinois farm, he continues to have an active business interest in his family business.</div><div>
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</div><div>Beau Greenwood is executive vice president of government relations and public affairs at CropLife America, the largest national trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural pesticides across the United States. In this role, Greenwood heads the association’s national and state advocacy efforts.</div><div>
</div><div>Prior to joining CropLife America, Greenwood served in a variety of agriculture policy capacities on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. Most recently, he served as chief of staff to <font color="#ff0000">Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Fred Hatfield</font> during the Bush Administration. His initial appointment with the Commission was as director of congressional affairs during the Clinton Administration, where he helped shape policy and direct legislative strategy<font color="#ff0000"> cumulating in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which modernized U.S. futures and other derivatives trading.&nbsp;</font></div><div>
</div><div>While a member of the late-Senator Howell Heflin’s (D-AL) staff, Greenwood was instrumental in writing the 1996 Farm Bill and the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1996 Food Quality Protection Act.</span> He also served as professional staff on the House Agriculture Committee to then-Ranking Member Congressman Charlie Stenholm (D-TX).</div><div>
</div><div>In addition to his work in agriculture community, Greenwood also served as director of &nbsp;government relations at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Washington, DC. &nbsp;His work was initially dominated by the recovery and response efforts of the Wall Street community after the 9/11 attacks followed by the wave of corporate scandals including Enron and Worldcom.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Beau began his professional career as a staff assistant to then-House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Charlie Rose (D-NC).</div><div>
</div><div>A graduate of the George Washington University, Greenwood also attended Texas A&M University.</div><div>
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</div><div>William F. &nbsp;Kuckuck is Executive Vice President and COO for CropLife America. &nbsp;He is also president of CropLife America’s educational and research arm, CropLife Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization designed to promote and advance sustainable agriculture, and the environmental-safe use of crop protection products and bio engineered agriculture. Prior to CropLife America, Kuckuck served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Farmland Trust (AFT), a Washington headquartered organization committed to helping farmers and ranchers protect their land, produce a healthier environment and build successful rural communities. Kuckuck’s professional experience includes several senior management positions in the food and agriculture sectors, having served as managing director of Marine Harvest Europe, president of Tyson Foods International and group chairman of Ralston Purina Asia/Pacific, among others.</div><div>
</div><div>Kuckuck, a contributing author of ‘The Future of North American Animal Agriculture,’ has also served as a lecturer on corporate governance at the University of Arkansas and was a featured speaker on the <b>Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Kuckuck holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison in Agricultural Business Management and completed his Master of Business Administration degree at Rockhurst University. He has also completed executive programs in International Management and Logistics/Supply Chain Management. In addition, Kuckuck is an active volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.</div><div>
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</div><div>Dr. Barb Glenn is Senior Vice President, Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, Washington, DC.</div><div>
</div><div>She previously served as Managing Director of Animal Biotechnology in the Food & Agriculture Section at BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, in Washington, DC where she was responsible for leading the animal biotechnology program that seeks to provide industry leadership on science and regulatory issues. Prior to that, Barb was the Executive Vice President – Scientific Liaison for the Federation of Animal Science Societies, in Washington, DC. Barb was also a Research Dairy Scientist with the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD conducting research on energy and protein metabolism in lactating dairy cows.</div><div>
</div><div>Barb received her Ph.D. in Ruminant Nutrition and Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from the University of Kentucky. In addition she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Maryland. Her family is a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, Maryland Hereford Association, Maryland Jersey Cattle Association and Maryland Holstein Association. &nbsp;She is a member of the Howard County (MD) 4-H Foundation board of directors.</div><div>
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</div><div>Rachel G. Lattimore is senior vice president and general counsel for CropLife America. As a key member of the association’s strategic management team, Lattimore provides corporate governance support to the Board of Directors and serves as a spokesperson for the crop protection industry.</div><div>
</div><div>Lattimore joined CropLife America in 2013 from the law firm <b>Arent Fox LLP,</b> where she had been a partner since 2003. She is recognized as an expert in a variety of highly-regulated business sectors such as pesticides, biotechnology, food safety and seed, and has direct experience in various litigation matters that span challenges such as federal regulation of ag biotechnology, pesticide data compensation and EPA enforcement actions.</div><div>
</div><div>Lattimore has authored numerous publications and presentations on issues as diverse as the <b>Food Safety Modernization Act,</b> expanding health and safety protection for infants and children and the precautionary principle and biotechnology.</div><div>
</div><div>A graduate of Duke University School of Law, Lattimore earned her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English from the University of North Carolina. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand.</div><div>
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</div><div>Douglas T. Nelson is senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues for CropLife America. Prior to serving as CropLife America’s senior advisor for trade, intellectual property and strategic issues, Dr. Nelson was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of CropLife America for 17 years. In addition to his current role, Dr. Nelson is also vice chair of CropLife Foundation and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., teaching courses on globalization and corporate law. Dr. Nelson is a member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Trade in Chemicals (ITAC3) and Intellectual Property (ITAC15) charged with advising the<b> U.S. Trade Representative</b> and the Secretary of Commerce on U.S. Trade Policy, including the ongoing TPP negotiations and the upcoming EU/US Free Trade negotiations.</div><div>
</div><div>Prior to CropLife America, Dr. Nelson served as assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of<b> Unilever </b>United States, Inc. in New York, N.Y. Other previous positions included acquisitions and divestitures counsel at Union Carbide Corporation in Danbury, Conn., and associate positions at the New York law firms of Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Coudert Brothers.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Nelson is an appointed member of the United States Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, which advises the U.S. trade representative and the Secretary of Commerce on intellectual property rights aspects of U.S. trade policy.</div><div>
</div><div>Dr. Nelson holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., a master’s degree and Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, in New York, N.Y.</div></div><div>==</div></div></div>