DPR's 2017 pesticide use data just announced: more than 200 million pounds used, chlorpyrifos is UP, glyphosate is in the top 10
Farmworker communities applaud California chlorpyrifos cancellation proceedings, alternatives work group
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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Governor Newsom Announces Cancellation of Brain-harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Dow’s cheap and devastating nerve gas is the first pesticide ever to be cancelled in California Sacramento, CA: California’s farmworking communities will soon get a reprieve from a devastating pesticide linked to permanent brain damage in young children. A little more...
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“What happened is something that is very worrying. You get scared and think, ‘How many of us here will die?’” - Mardonio Solario, Tulare County farmworker, drift victim.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that pesticide regulation is a matter of life and death. It is absolutely unacceptable that farmworkers are expected to accept this risk.” - Greg Loarie, Earthjustice staff attorney.
"More enforcement isn't the answer." - Melissa Cregan, Fresno County Ag Commissioner.
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Chemical exposures in California’s vast cropland spark fear for growers and workers
Two large-scale pesticide exposures in California’s Central Valley alarmed ag leaders and left workers in fear. It opened old divisions over pesticides and whether more should be done to prevent drift events.they want to have the most sickness possible
"[T]he French state has rapped him on the knuckles, dragged him into court and told him that he, the shepherd over a mere 600 souls, had no right to ban pesticides by ordinance from his village.
The other French mayors, from the Alps to the Atlantic, don’t seem to care and have passed their own restrictions in as many as 40 small towns."
A Revolution in Brittany: Mayors Defy French State to Ban Pesticides
A mayor banned pesticide use on the farms surrounding his village. Even though he was prosecuted for doing so, dozens of other mayors have followed his lead.