National Coalition Against
the Misuse of Pesticides presents Erick Umstead
with "Whistleblower Award."
1993
NC Pesticide Board finally
adopts federal Worker Protection Standards - Toxic
Free NC brings farmworkers to testify there for
the first time
1994
Parents in Pitt County win
first school IPM policy in North Carolina
1996
Toxic Free NC helps the town
of Chapel Hill institute IPM in its public housing
Toxic Free NC forces revisions
of the NC Groundwater Study, finding consistent pesticide
contamination across the state.
1998
Groundbreaking agreement
with electric utilities allows landowners to refuse
herbicide spraying on power lines on their property.
Photo: Fawn Pattison
(left) and Cathy Jones (right) at Toxic Free NC's
20th Anniversary Celebration. Cathy and her husband
Mike Perry were among the organic farmers who fought
for the right to refuse Right-of-Way spraying of
power lines on their property. Photo by Russell Gorga.
1999
NC Supreme Court overturns
Meads case, upholding the right of NCDA to regulate
pesticides.
US Pesticide Industry names Carrboro,
NC (our former home) one of the nation's "Top
10 Anti-Pesticide Hot Spots."
Photo: Chris Gerry,
retired IPM Coordinator for the Town of Carrboro,
accepts the Local Visionary Award at Toxic Free NC's
20th Anniversary Celebration. Photo by Russell Gorga.
