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...

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...

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...

Comprehensive restrictions and school right-to-know are ignored in new draft of pesticide rules Schoolchildren will only be protected from hazardous agricultural pesticides for limited hours on school days, according to the latest draft of rules released March 16 by...

The well-documented brain-harming effects of the organophosphate chlorpyrifos, widely used in California, have led it to the brink of a total ban, announced by the US EPA last fall and set to be finalized on March 31. Already banned for home use in 2001, chlorpyrifos...

The Department of Pesticide Regulation director and his top advisor endured a grilling last week at a packed hearing convened by the California Senate Committee on Environmental Quality to consider the new schools regs. Testimony from the panel of experts made clear...

Community members wait to speak at the DPR hearing in Salinas DPR just wrapped up three hearings on the proposed new regulations to protect schoolchildren from exposure to hazardous agricultural pesticides - and we were ready! Thanks to our terrific organizing bases...

DPR Announces Draft Regulations for Schools Make Your Voice Heard! 45-day public comment period closed on December 9. Check back for updates!  Draft School Regulations fall far short of needed protection More than a year after the California Department of Pesticide...

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