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for live action alerts, pick a way to protest:
- DIRECT SEND - EMAIL, FAX OR MAIL
For best results, send comments directly from you, instead of bundled into a web petition from Kinship Circle’s server.
- AUTOMATED WEB PETITION
For least effort, send comments as part of an internet petition.
Sometimes web petitions create a spam effect that angers recipients and hurts outcome for animals. Recipients can also easily block web petitions.
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option #1: direct send - email, fax or mail
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email your letter:
- Copy SAMPLE LETTER below. Paste it into an email.
- Change some words. Sign name, address, country.
- Copy EMAIL ADDRESSES. Paste in TO: line of an email.
CLICK SEND, from whatever email program you’re using.
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fax or mail a printed letter:
- Open sample letter as a DOC or PDF.
- Change some words. Sign name, address, country. Print.
- Fax or mail your letter using CONTACT INFORMATION on this page or in the DOC or PDF.
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sample letter ~ copy/paste into an email
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Dear EPA Administrator Jackson, USEPA, and Collaborative U.S. Agencies:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tests chemicals for their capacity to act as endocrine disruptors. This is a good idea. Some chemicals
disturb hormone function, potentially damaging animal growth and reproduction.
EPA chemical screens will also kill 80,000 animals over a span of years. This is a bad idea. I urge EPA to update its protocols. Some tests —
like “lethal dose 50%” to measure how much chemical kills half the animals dosed with it — date back to the 1920s! Draize
tests from the 1940s still drip toxins into a rabbit’s clipped-open eyes or smear corrosives on shaved skin to assess eye-skin irritation.
Please replace old-fashioned animal models with human-focused research tools for EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).
Reactivity assays can gauge endocrine disruptors and reproductive toxicity — without subjecting tens of thousands of animals to pain and
death. In fact, EPA has already invested millions in development of these “innovative methods” for its Computational Toxicology
Research Program, ToxCast™. EPA recognizes “quantitative high-throughput screening (qHTS) assays” as key in the
evaluation of toxic pathways. It cites published research about the efficacy of animal-free assays.
Yet rather than embrace its own program, EPA has turned down 90 percent of pesticide company requests to utilize ToxCast in vitro tests in place
of animals. The agency prefers to duplicate the same old animal tests in what amounts to an enormous waste of time and money. Animal
experimentation is unlikely to help EPA safeguard humans or the environment.
Please let chemical testers use ToxCast to screen for endocrine disruption. If nothing else, ToxCast should rank chemicals according to
significance and cut animal use to a bare minimum. Starting now.
YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
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contact information
Most alerts have multiple email recipients. If one or more emails bounce that does NOT mean all emails failed.
Forward email failure messages to: info@kinshipcircle.org
Please do not send us hostile notes if an email bounces.
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SOME (BUT NOT ALL!) EMAILS MAY BOUNCE:
- Official websites list outdated or incorrect emails.
- Recipients block or change addresses if swamped with emails.
- Technical errors: A server may be down or not accepting email.
- The email recipient’s inbox is full (over quota).
- Occasionally the same email address will work at a later time.
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email addresses only ~ copy/paste in to: line of email
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jackson.lisap@epa.gov, ellis.heidi@epa.gov, anastas.paul@epa.gov, webcenter@niehs.nih.gov, birnbaumls@niehs.nih.gov, bucher@niehs.nih.gov, niceatm@niehs.nih.gov, austinc@mail.nih.gov
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full contact information ~ get letter as doc or pdf to fax or mail
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Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
ph: 202-564-4700; 202-272-0167
email: jackson.lisap@epa.gov
SOURCE:
www.epa.gov/aboutepa/postal.html
blog.epa.gov/administrator/contact-us/
Heidi Ellis, USEPA Headquarters
Ariel Rios Building / Mail Code: 1101A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, DC 20460
ph: 202-564-3204
email: ellis.heidi@epa.gov
SOURCE:
cfpub.epa.gov/locator/index.cfm
Paul Anastas, Ph.D., Assistant Administrator, Office of Research &
Development, EPA Science Advisor
Office of Research and Development of the U.S. EPA
USEPA Headquarters
Ariel Rios Building / Mail Code: 8101R
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, DC 20460
ph: 202-564-6620
email: anastas.paul@epa.gov
website: www.epa.gov/research/index.htm
SOURCE:
www.epa.gov/ord/htm/comments.htm
cfpub.epa.gov/locator/index.cfm
National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233, MD K3-16
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina USA 27709-2233
Office of Communications & Public Liaison: 919-541-3345
fax: 919-541-4395
general email: webcenter@niehs.nih.gov
website: www.epa.gov/research/index.htm
SOURCE:
niehs.nih.gov/about/od/ocpl/contact/index.cfm
niehs.nih.gov/about/od/index.cfm
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Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.
Director, NIEHS & NTP
P.O. Box 12233
Mail Drop B2-01
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
ph: 919-541-3201
fax: 919-541-2260
email: birnbaumls@niehs.nih.gov
SOURCE: niehs.nih.gov/about/od/director/index.cfml
John R. Bucher, Ph.D., Associate Director, NTP
P.O. Box 12233
Mail Drop K2-02
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
ph: 919-541-4532
fax: 919-541-4255
email: bucher@niehs.nih.gov
SOURCE: niehs.nih.gov/about/od/ontp/index.cfm
National Toxicology Program Interagency Ctr for Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM)
William S. Stokes, D.V.M., DACLAM, ICCVAM Executive Director & NICEATM Director
P.O. Box 12233, MD K2-16
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
ph: 919-541-2384
email: niceatm@niehs.nih.gov
SOURCE: iccvam.niehs.nih.gov/about/about_NICEATM.htm
NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC) of the National Human Genomics Research Institute
Christopher P. Austin, M.D., Director, NIH Chemical Genomics Center
NIH Chemical Genomics Center
9800 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
ph: 301-217-5725
fax: 301-217-5736
email: austinc@mail.nih.gov
SOURCE: ncgc.nih.gov/about/caustin.html
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option #2: automated web petition
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▶ EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP)
▶ Government Agency to Kill 80,000
Animals
▶ FACTS: Animal Experimentation
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