Californians For Pesticide Reform : Index

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1-14-2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DPR Recommendations Leave California Schoolchildren, Rural Communities At Risk from Cancer-Causing Pesticide - DPR “recommendations” would allow Californians to be exposed to a cancer-causing pesticide at a level 25 times higher than its own scientists recommended. <read more>

12-3-2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CPR Calls on Gov. Brown to Protect Children from the Brain-harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - Honoring the victims of the Bhopal pesticide disaster, CPR and allies are appealing to Governor Brown for action to protect children from this hazardous, drift-prone pesticide. Chlorpyrifos' primary manufacturer, Dow, is the owner of the Union Carbide facility that caused the 1984 pesticide .. <read more>

11-15-2014 Read the new exposé "The Dark Side of the Strawberry" - The Center for Investigative Reporting just released a six part exposé on how the pesticide and industrial agriculture industries successfully pressured officials at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to allow continued use of highly hazardous and volatile pesticides despite evidence .. <read more>