Stop a Dow Chemical pesticide executive from becoming chief scientist of the USDA!

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Tell your U.S. Senators to deny Trump's efforts to appoint the head of Dow’s pesticide division as chief scientist of the USDA. Scott Hutchins' career advocacy for dangerous pesticides has left women, children, and farmworkers especially vulnerable to the impacts of his company's products -- while exposing our food supply to even more harmful chemicals.

Pesticide pollution of our water, soil, and air is unacceptable and a toxic agrochemical executive is deeply inappropriate for a chief scientist role at our federal agricultural regulatory agency that is supposed to protect the public. This is Trump's third Dow Chemical nomination to the USDA and it must be stopped before the hearing on November 28!

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We need a USDA undersecretary for research, education and economics that is free of blatant agrochemical and genetically engineered crop industry ties, who supports safe, sustainable food production, small farmers, transparent food labeling, and the prevention and reduction of pesticide exposure.

Hutchins' long time employer Dow Chemical donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural campaign, and met secretively with Scott Pruitt. Shortly after, the EPA reversed their plans to ban Dow’s neurotoxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, which Hutchins has a history of defending despite the EPA’s own scientists having concluded that “ingesting even minuscule amounts of the chemical can interfere with the brain development of fetuses and infants."

Hutchins is the third Dow executive Trump has nominated to a powerful position in the USDA, despite human health impacts from toxic Dow’s agrochemicals and their devastating harm to our pollinators and natural resources. Scott Hutchins' career advocacy for dangerous pesticides has left women, children, and farmworkers especially vulnerable to the impacts of his company’s products -- while exposing our food supply to even more toxins.

The agrochemical industry is heavily lobbying Congress and this administration to deregulate dangerous pesticides that poison our water, land, air, wildlife, food, and people. The integrity of our regulatory bodies and the safety of our food, communities, and water is at risk. I ask you to please oppose the nomination of Scott Hutchins on behalf of human health, clean water, safe food, sustainable agriculture, and non-toxic air. Please prioritize those that are small in size and cannot advocate for themselves but make all the difference in our lives, such as pollinators and our children, which face severe harm from pesticide exposure.

Hutchins' history indicates his agenda prioritizes chemical, intensive agriculture over sustainable, non-toxic methods of growing food. Please do not put another career agrochemical industry insider in a position of greater authority over our food, agriculture, health, and safety. Appointing Scott Hutchins to this position as chief scientist of the USDA would seem to contradict the mission of the organization to protect public health and safety, and hurt public confidence in a critical regulatory agency. As my elected decision maker, I implore you to please act to protect all of your constituents by stopping this appointment.

Thank you for your consideration.

As your constituent, I urge you to please oppose the nomination of Scott Hutchins for chief scientist of the USDA. Hutchins is a career Dow Chemical pesticide executive and I am very concerned about the pesticide industry's influence over regulatory bodies, public health, and the environment. We need a USDA undersecretary for research, education and economics that is free of blatant agrochemical and genetically engineered crop industry ties, who supports safe, sustainable food production, small farmers, transparent food labeling, and the prevention and reduction of pesticide exposure. Hutchins' long time employer Dow Chemical donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural campaign, and met secretively with Scott Pruitt. Shortly after, the EPA reversed their plans to ban Dow’s neurotoxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, which Hutchins has a history of defending despite the EPA’s own scientists having concluded that “ingesting even minuscule amounts of the chemical can interfere with the brain development of fetuses and infants." Hutchins is the third Dow executive Trump has nominated to a powerful position in the USDA, despite human health impacts from toxic Dow’s agrochemicals and their devastating harm to our pollinators and natural resources. Scott Hutchins' career advocacy for dangerous pesticides has left women, children, and farmworkers especially vulnerable to the impacts of his company’s products -- while exposing our food supply to even more toxins. The agrochemical industry is heavily lobbying Congress and this administration to deregulate dangerous pesticides that poison our water, land, air, wildlife, food, and people. The integrity of our regulatory bodies and the safety of our food, communities, and water is at risk. I ask you to please oppose the nomination of Scott Hutchins on behalf of human health, clean water, safe food, sustainable agriculture, and non-toxic air. Please prioritize those that are small in size and cannot advocate for themselves but make all the difference in our lives, such as pollinators and our children, which face severe harm from pesticide exposure. Hutchins' history indicates his agenda prioritizes chemical, intensive agriculture over sustainable, non-toxic methods of growing food. Please do not put another career agrochemical industry insider in a position of greater authority over our food, agriculture, health, and safety. Appointing Scott Hutchins to this position as chief scientist of the USDA would seem to contradict the mission of the organization to protect public health and safety, and hurt public confidence in a critical regulatory agency. As my elected decision maker, I implore you to please act to protect all of your constituents by stopping this appointment. Thank you for your consideration.

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