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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Pesticide feds failed to ban responsible for major farmworker poisoning incident
Company fined for illegal drift of brain-harming chlorpyrifos in Kern County Bakersfield, CA - The Kern County Agricultural Commissioner confirmed today that one of the pesticides involved in a major pesticide drift incident that affected nearly 50 farmworkers in May...
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Kern Farmworkers Sickened Again by Pesticide Drift
Versión en español abajo Farmworker groups call for advanced web-posting of pesticide applications For Immediate Release: August 2, 2017 Bakersfield, CA – A pesticide drift incident in southwest Bakersfield this morning affected seventy farmworkers harvesting garlic....
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Are you a dynamic young person looking to launch a movement in the southern Central Coast? We are looking for an intern to join our team of statewide pesticide organizers, as part of The Abundant Table's residential internship cohort of young people working in food...
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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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SIGN OUR PETITION! CA Kids Deserve 24/7 Pesticide Protections
Comment period ends Tuesday April 4 at 5pm. Modifications to the Department of Pesticide Regulation's new rule regarding pesticide use near schools have just been released - and they make the regulation weaker, not stronger. Gone is the 48-hour notification to schools...
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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.