AP: Porter Novelli Moth-spraying PR Deal Suspended

The Associated Press is reporting that Porter Novelli’s $497,000 contract to handle communications for a controversial aerial chemical spraying program has been suspended.

Accroding to the AP, the aerial spraying campaign was orignially started to “combat the light brown apple moth, an unintended import from Australia that state officials say threatens more than 2,000 varieties of California plants and crops.” The program has come under heat after, “more than 600 people complained of health problems after a synthetic pheromone that disrupts the moth’s mating cycle was sprayed over Monterey and Santa Cruz counties last year.”

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