California announces end for brain-harming pesticide
Chlorpyrifos use will be banned in December 2020 Sacramento: In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos in California. Dow and other manufacturers...
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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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April 25, 2019 Teresa Marks, Acting Director Department of Pesticide Regulation 1001 I Street Sacramento, CA 95812 Dear Acting Director Marks, In March, researchers from UCLA Law School published Governance on the Ground: Evaluating the Role of County Agricultural...
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State’s ‘Short-term Fix’ for Brain-Damaging Pesticide Falls Short
Under pressure to ban chlorpyrifos, pesticide regulators recommend inadequate exposure-reduction measures Sacramento: Under intensifying pressure from a large coalition of health, education and environmental justice advocates, state regulators today announced a set of...
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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...
read moreFederal Court orders national ban on brain-harming chlorpyrifos within 60 days
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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State finds widespread risk from brain-harming pesticide
Nerve agent chlorpyrifos is a Toxic Air Contaminant that threatens agricultural communities and harms children’s developing brains, state scientists agree Sacramento, CA: California took a step closer Monday to curbing the use of a pesticide linked to permanent brain...
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"Communities are looking to Gavin Newsom and the California Environmental Protection Agency for continued bold action to get poisons out of our fields and usher in farming practices that care for workers, communities, and the planet." ~ NRDC
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Landmark Victory: California Ditching Chlorpyrifos in 2020
The bold move will protect children's health in the state and across the country—as well as get the ball rolling for other states to follow suit.About time, hope others do too.
Today the coalition rejoices in a victory for public health, science and the future of our children. Thanks Gavin Newsom!
Read our statement on the end of chlorpyrifos in California
www.pesticidereform.org/2019/10/09/california-announces-end-for-brain-harming-pesticide/
California announces end for brain-harming pesticide | Californians for Pesticide Reform
California announces end for brain-harming pesticide by Jane Sellen | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments Chlorpyrifos use will be banned in December 2020 Sacramento: In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the bra...“Chlorpyrifos began grabbing headlines in 2017 when the Trump Administration reversed a long-planned federal ban, in defiance of US EPA scientists who had concluded after more than a decade of study that chlorpyrifos was unsafe to use in any amount. Soon after, Hawaii and New York took the lead in enacting statewide bans. In California, chlorpyrifos was designated a restricted material, a Toxic Air Contaminant, and a Prop. 65-listed chemical, but it was the Newsom Administration that sounded the death knell for the chemical, which is still used in vast quantities in California – almost a million pounds each year. “We’re delighted that the Newsom Administration, CalEPA and the Department of Pesticide Regulation have stepped up to right a glaring wrong, and have sided decisively with science, public health, and the future of California’s children,” said Jane Sellen, co-director of the statewide coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform.”
Finally -- congratulations!!
Olga Medina
"Recent research has shown that as many as 90% of us have glyphosate in our bodies. We can be exposed to glyphosate from our food and from playing or working in a place where glyphosate herbicides were recently sprayed."
Glyphosate Exposure in Adults and Children - Center for Environmental Health
Glyphosate Exposure in Adults and Children