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Environmental Advocate & Radio Host Ida Honorof, 93, Dies

HeadlineMar 20, 2007

And the environmental activist and radio host Ida Honorof has died at the age of 93. For 20 years, she hosted the program “Report to the Consumer” on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK in Los Angeles. Her reporting on contaminated lettuce led to a ban on the pesticide Monitor-4. In 1992, she was honored by the Northcoast Environmental Center as being “a one-person environmental corporation … working on behalf of clean air, clean water and pure food.”

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