Great. Just fucking great. Dupont weed killer, Imprelis, is also killing TREES! Jim Hightower...

[in_cog_ni_to]

This crap has killed hundreds of thousands of trees all across the country!

"DuPont’s Herbicide Goes Rogue" Jim Hightower

In the corporate world's tortured language, workers are no longer fired. They just experience an "employment adjustment." But the most twisted euphemism I've heard in a long time comes from DuPont: "We are investigating the reports of these unfavorable tree symptoms," the pesticide maker recently stated.

How unfavorable? Finito, flat-lined, the tree is dead. Not just one tree, but hundreds of thousands all across the country are suffering the final "symptom."


The culprit turns out to be Imprelis, a DuPont weed-killer widely applied to lawns, golf courses, and — ironically — cemeteries.

Rather than just poisoning dandelions and other weeds, the herbicide also seems to be causing spruces, pines, willows, poplars, and other unintended victims to croak.<snip>

More at link:
http://www.nationofchange.org/duponts-herbicide-goes-rogue-1315805149

[dipsydoodle]

1. They've already agreed to pay damages

DuPont is preparing to launch a claims process for lawn care professionals and golf course superintendents who manage and maintain trees that have suffered damage related to the use of the company's Imprelis herbicide.

Late last week, the company posted a letter to both constituencies, posted in its entirety below, that detailed some of the steps of that claims process, which begins with a Sept. 6 email to those who have submitted reports of damage to Norway spruce, white pine and other tree species. They will also post details of the claims process to the website the company launched specifically to communicate information about Imprelis, www.imprelis-facts.com.

In early August, the company announced it was voluntarily suspending sales of Imprelis. One week later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made that move mandatory, ordering the company to halt the sale, use or distribution of Imprelis under the guidance of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

http://gcm.typepad.com/gcm/2011/08/dupont-unveils-imprelis-claims-process.html

There are posts elsewhere on DU on the subject.

Here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=307472
and here : http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=310482

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Thanks...

Thanks for the links. I didn't know this had already been posted.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Was just letting you know.

Not everyone looks at Environment/Energy.

They do at least appear to be acting more responsibly than Monsanto.

:hi:

[jberryhill]

6. DuPont learned this lesson the hard way several years back with Benlate

The longer they deny, the bigger they have to settle.

Although, their internal testing seems to have really gone to crap if they are going to do Son of Benlate here.

Not surprising, DuPont management hit the shitter in the mid 1980's.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

4. Sad!

[Auntie Bush]

5. This is just awful!

My daughter and also my sister each spent thousands a couple years ago for a whole row of big evergreens across their back properties for privacy. Early this summer after the first report came out they both noticed whole limbs turning brown. According to this report...they my lose whole trees. How sad!
:scared:
And ReThugs don't want the agencies that protect and warn us of these horrors.
Maybe if their trees are killed it might knock some sense into them...but I doubt it...they're too thick headed!

[Generic Other]

7. That's interesting

I have seen a lot of fully mature trees turn brown and die mysteriously. It's always sad to see. And they did tend to be in places with well kept lawns.

A couple years ago my neighbor poisoned weeds along the side of the fence. My beautiful Japanese maple suddenly turned brown and died. I can't prove it, but I think the some sort of weed killer was involved.