DPR, chlorpyrifos is a Toxic Air Contaminant - BAN IT NOW!
Rural residents demand relief from brain-damaging pesticide
Patience wears thin as state legislators join call for immediate ban of chlorpyrifos Sacramento, CA: The fate of a common agricultural pesticide linked to irreversible brain damage in young children remains mired in state bureaucracy, in a process that could take up...
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Calls intensify for California regulators to take action on chlorpyrifos
Trump Administration stalls court-ordered ban of brain-harming pesticide Sacramento, CA - The U.S. Justice Department has requested a rehearing of a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to revoke all tolerances of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos within...
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Decision confirms that California must also take action to protect communities now Sacramento, CA: Slamming the Trump administration’s repudiation of science, today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt a nationwide...
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36% of Latina teens registered chlorpyrifos exposure in just 7 days of testing. #banchlorpyrifosOur youth engagement focused COSECHA study published their first research paper! Read about the factors that increased or decreased teen girl's exposures to potentially hormone disrupting or carcinogenic pesticides. More research to come! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30380470
We're calling on California Department of Pesticide Regulation to #banchlorpyrifos now. Not next week. Not in two years. NOW.
Trump says it's fine to spray toxic nerve gas on people and on our food, but millions of Californians disagree.
You have the power to stop this now, DPR. USE IT!
Check out our press release: www.pesticidereform.org/2018/11/09/rural-residents-demand-relief-from-brain-damaging-pesticide/
