Governor Newsom Announces THE END of Brain-harming Chlorpyrifos!
California announces end for brain-harming pesticide
Chlorpyrifos use will be banned in December 2020 Sacramento: In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos in California. Dow and other manufacturers...
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Community members relieved, urge speedy process Media contacts: Angel Garcia, angel@pesticidereform.org, 559-667-2966 & Byanka Santoyo, bsantoyo@crpe-ej.org, 661-865-0458 Sacramento, CA: This morning the Newsom administration sent notices to Dow and other...
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Pesticide use remains near record high in California, state data show
Sacramento, CA: Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Included in this total are increases in use of the brain-damaging...
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"Communities are looking to Gavin Newsom and the California Environmental Protection Agency for continued bold action to get poisons out of our fields and usher in farming practices that care for workers, communities, and the planet." ~ NRDC
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Landmark Victory: California Ditching Chlorpyrifos in 2020
The bold move will protect children's health in the state and across the country—as well as get the ball rolling for other states to follow suit.About time, hope others do too.
Today the coalition rejoices in a victory for public health, science and the future of our children. Thanks Gavin Newsom!
Read our statement on the end of chlorpyrifos in California
www.pesticidereform.org/2019/10/09/california-announces-end-for-brain-harming-pesticide/
California announces end for brain-harming pesticide | Californians for Pesticide Reform
California announces end for brain-harming pesticide by Jane Sellen | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Chlorpyrifos use will be banned in December 2020 Sacramento: In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the bra...“Chlorpyrifos began grabbing headlines in 2017 when the Trump Administration reversed a long-planned federal ban, in defiance of US EPA scientists who had concluded after more than a decade of study that chlorpyrifos was unsafe to use in any amount. Soon after, Hawaii and New York took the lead in enacting statewide bans. In California, chlorpyrifos was designated a restricted material, a Toxic Air Contaminant, and a Prop. 65-listed chemical, but it was the Newsom Administration that sounded the death knell for the chemical, which is still used in vast quantities in California – almost a million pounds each year. “We’re delighted that the Newsom Administration, CalEPA and the Department of Pesticide Regulation have stepped up to right a glaring wrong, and have sided decisively with science, public health, and the future of California’s children,” said Jane Sellen, co-director of the statewide coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform.”
Finally -- congratulations!!
Olga Medina
"Recent research has shown that as many as 90% of us have glyphosate in our bodies. We can be exposed to glyphosate from our food and from playing or working in a place where glyphosate herbicides were recently sprayed."
Glyphosate Exposure in Adults and Children - Center for Environmental Health
Glyphosate Exposure in Adults and Children