Dear Governor Newsom: Pesticides are Air Contaminants too!
Governor Gavin Newsom California State Capitol #1114 Sacramento, CA 95814 November 13, 2019 Re: CARB and Air District authority to regulate pesticide Toxic Air Contaminants Dear Governor Newsom, On behalf of the Shafter AB 617 Steering Committee, Californians for...
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California mulls new rules for cancer-causing pesticide 1,3 D or Telone
On heels of chlorpyrifos ban, public health and farmworker advocates call for restrictions on widely-used drift-prone fumigant Sacramento: Dozens of residents from across the state converged on the capital today to weigh in on new restrictions under discussion for the...
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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...
read moreFarmworker communities applaud California chlorpyrifos cancellation proceedings, alternatives work group
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...
read moreCPR to Department of Pesticide Regulation: Fix your broken permit system
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...
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New York Governor signs chlorpyrifos ban!
Governor Cuomo Directs DEC to Ban the Use of Chlorpyrifos
Governor Cuomo directed DEC to take immediate action to ban aerial use of chlorpyrifos."The Salinas Valley is known for its enormous industrial farms that grow produce like lettuce and broccoli. But just southeast of the city of Salinas, a patchwork of much smaller organic fruit and vegetable fields breaks the industrial sprawl"
Opinion | Turning Farm Workers Into Farmers
In California, near immense industrial farms, small plots are rented out to field laborers so they can try to create their own farm businesses.Reiter Berry Farms will pay an as yet undisclosed fine after 27 members of a berry harvesting crew working in a field on the Hartnell Ranch in Salinas were sickened by residue from pesticides sprayed on a nearby field.
Reiter Berry Farms is the largest supplier Driscoll berries.
A berry company faces fines for a 2017 pesticide release that sickened dozens of workers.
An Oxnard-based berry company will pay a fine after 27 members of a berry harvesting crew working in a field on the Hartnell Ranch in Salinas were sickened by residue