he says her 3 year old son in law a kid and other koichi are sick from inhaling pesticides sprayed by large seed companies lasers are being handed out like candy to children almost all my friends have a nebulizer doctor issue at their home why the chemical companies are some of the strongest lobbyists that we have in congress yes i know there's an undue amount of influence they have but certainly they. spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year in lobbying and in champaign funding to buy their way through congress phed. for the 1st. few. months. oh. nobody. knows. even. when it comes down to it it is no actually that i think one can say oh well the russians are all bad to certainly is not the case of the west indies all good there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less totally counterpart out. for tara who struggles we see against russia that it's you know if it's become an easy way all getting certain the audiences to approach you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps move . i. ready ready ready am sure

pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe home an area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that a chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do it with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do. if i had to send my child to school every day alongside a field where i knew they were

in november of 2013 when koichi passed bill to 49 when it was the shot heard round the world and what you've seen since then in 201-520-1620 extension 17 is the interaction of multiple builds all of which have tried to do what bill 2 for $91.00 fundamentally required the chemical companies to do. in 2017 alone we had 25 different bills and none of them passed and the question is why 2 things really that come to mind that have prevented forward movement one is you have a tremendous amount of money in the political system you look at super pacs and national politics and think you know there's millions of dollars there but there's money at the local level too and it does have an impact. the department of agriculture has been front and center in opposing most of the measures that have been introduced of the legislature that seek better regulation of pesticides i think our state laws may have been great at one point in regulating traditional plantation agriculture but clearly now where we have experimental combinations of pesticides being used on a widespread basis clearly our regulations

pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot we've seen example after example where we've had to rush children from a public school to an e.r. like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that a chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work.