Farmworker communities converge on Sacramento to demand a ban of brain-harming chlorpyrifos
Farmworker Communities Call on California to Ban Brain-Harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Residents converge on Sacramento to deliver over 100,000 petition signatures demanding state action after U.S. EPA failed to implement a ban For Immediate Release: July 12, 2017 Sacramento, CA – After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to heed the...
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Pesticide Use Up Sharply in California, According to New DPR Data
2015 Totals Are Second Highest Ever Recorded Use of hazardous agricultural pesticides in California increased by 23 million pounds (12%) in 2015 over the prior year to a staggering 213 million pounds, according to pesticide use data just released by the California...
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Ban Chlorpyrifos Now!
The US Environmental Protection Agency on March 29 failed to heed its own scientists’ advice and end the use of the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos. Now residents of California’s farmworker communities are calling on Governor Jerry Brown to move swiftly and enact...
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Disappointing news on the appeal of the federal action on chlorpyrifos. California, it's time to step up. #BanChlorpyrifos
Court rejects greens’ appeal of EPA’s decision not to ban pesticide
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© Getty A federal appeals court rejected a plea by environmental groups to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision not to restrict the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos.The San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit made its decision on procedural grounds, writ...
Californians for Pesticide Reform organized about 250 people in a march and rally outside the CalEPA building today, calling for a ban on chlorpyrifos. It's hard to pick just a few favorite photos because all the faces, voices and signs were so memorable. But here's my first look, with more to come at www.joancusick.com.
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