{"id":55,"date":"2013-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/erin-brockovich-joins-campaign-for-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T00:00:00","slug":"erin-brockovich-joins-campaign-for-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/erin-brockovich-joins-campaign-for-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Brockovich joins campaign for Australian Government to review pesticide laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<strong>THE Federal Government is under renewed pressure to protect\u00a0Australians and the environment from pesticides banned overseas for years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> More than a year after a <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/features\/environment\/australia-is-lagging-behind-the-majority-fo-the-developed-world-when-it-comes-to-chemicals\/story-e6frflp0-1225903069771#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>News.com.au\u00a0investigation<\/u><\/a> into the poor state of Australia&#8217;s\u00a0 regulation of <br \/> pesticides a coalition of Health, consumer and environmental\u00a0 organisations are\u00a0demanding an overhaul of laws, which they say are lagging\u00a0 dangerously behind\u00a0other parts of the world.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>The groups, including the consumer group Choice, say more than\u00a080 pesticides registered in Australia are no longer authorised in Europe\u00a0because\u00a0 of the risks they pose to human health and the\u00a0environment.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>Read\u00a0 more: <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/features\/environment\/heat-on-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws\/story-e6frflp0-1226075604359#ixzz2Ml4Fw5Cq\"><u>http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/features\/environment\/heat-on-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws\/story-e6frflp0-1226075604359#ixzz2Ml4Fw5Cq<\/u><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Federal Government is under renewed pressure to protect\u00a0Australians and the environment from pesticides banned overseas for years.\u00a0 More than a year after a News.com.au\u00a0investigation into the poor state of Australia&#8217;s\u00a0 regulation of pesticides a coalition of Health, consumer and environmental\u00a0 organisations are\u00a0demanding an overhaul of laws, which they say are lagging\u00a0 dangerously behind\u00a0other parts<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadMore\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/erin-brockovich-joins-campaign-for-australian-government-to-review-pesticide-laws\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}