2015 Totals Are Second Highest Ever Recorded Use of hazardous agricultural pesticides in California increased by 23 million pounds (12%) in 2015 over the prior year to a staggering 213 million pounds, according to pesticide use data just released by the California...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on March 29 failed to heed its own scientists’ advice and end the use of the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos. Now residents of California’s farmworker communities are calling on Governor Jerry Brown to move swiftly and enact...

Comment period ends Tuesday April 4 at 5pm. Modifications to the Department of Pesticide Regulation's new rule regarding pesticide use near schools have just been released - and they make the regulation weaker, not stronger. Gone is the 48-hour notification to schools...