Melinda Hemmelgarn

Beyond Pesticides provides useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use. Its programs include safer choice, agricultural justice, antibacterials, bee protective, pollinators and pesticides, bed bugs, biodiversity, center for community pesticide and alternatives information, children and schools, fund for independent science, genetic engineering, golf and the environment, healthy hospitals, invasive weed management, lawns and landscapes, mosquito management and insect-borne diseases, national pesticide forum, organic agriculture, rodenticides, threatened waters, wildlife, and wood preservatives. The company was founded by Jay Feldman in 1981 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.