Comment period for DPR's chlorpyrifos risk assessment is now open until October 2. Tell DPR we know enough already to ban this brain-harming pesticide! TAKE ACTION NOW!
Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say
Sacramento, CA — Six months after the new chief of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Scott Pruitt refused to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, known to cause permanent brain damage in children, California officials have taken a page out of the Trump Administration’s...
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Health & Farmworker Advocates Respond to California Chlorpyrifos Announcement
For Immediate Release: August 18, 2017 Earlier today, California officials at the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced steps to address the threat of...
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Air testing shows unsafe levels of brain-harming pesticide in Kern County
Chlorpyrifos found in air more than 18 times higher than EPA level of concern Shafter, CA – Chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide linked to IQ loss and autism, has been found in the air in Kern County in amounts far in excess of the level of concern established...
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DPR's doing California no favors embarking on a lengthy process of review for brain-harming chlorpyrifos - we know enough to suspend it immediately while DPR spends years on further study. #banchlorpyrifos
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Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say by Jane Sellen | Sep 18, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Sacramento, CA — Six months after the new chief of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Scott Pruitt refused to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, known to cause…www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/09/16/18802961.php
Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say : Indybay
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Frustrated residents of agricultural communities packed a Sacramento hearing room Friday to urge the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to order an immediate suspension of chlorpyrifos while the state’s potentially lengthy scientific review takes place.