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...
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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Hawaii first in the nation to ban brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos
Hawaii’s bold action contrasts with California’s baby steps Sacramento, CA: Hawai'i Governor David Ige signed a ban of the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos into law Wednesday, making the Aloha State the first in the nation to ban the chemical linked to autism,...
read moreState agency fails to protect vulnerable communities from pesticide exposure, report finds
Department of Pesticide Regulation receives poor marks in 2nd annual agency assessment The state agency charged with regulating California’s pesticide industry allows manufacturers to make up their own usage rules, continues to allow a brain-damaging chemical to be...
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Sign the petition! US EPA is poised to reregister Monsanto's Roundup (glyphosate), despite the finding of three California juries that Monsanto knew of its links to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Comment period now open, make your voice heard!
Tell EPA they work for us, not Monsanto | Pesticide Action Network
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Three consecutive juries have found Monsanto (now Bayer) guilty of knowingly exposing people to glyphosate, a probable human carcinogen and the active ingredient in their flagship herbicide, Roundup. Yet EPA is poised to reregister the chemical, dismissing science showing it can be harmful to human....Just released: California Environmental Justice Alliance's annual EJ Agency Assessment gives a failing D grade to California Department of Pesticide Regulation for their continued unresponsiveness to community concerns, and for their calamitous failure to regulate Dow's carcinogenic fumigant Telone (1,3-Dichloropropene)
2018 Environmental Justice Agency Assessment - California Environmental Justice Alliance
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CEJA is proud to release our 2018 Environmental Justice Agency Assessment that provides an overview of how well environmental justice issues are being integrated or championed at state agencies, and where there are areas for improvement. Download our full report on June 20th to learn how well state....Today in Tulare County: more than 60 workers were poisoned by pesticide drift from a neighboring vineyard that was being sprayed while workers were present nearby.
VIDEO: Pesticide mishap douses 63 Tulare County workers in poison, two seriously injured
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Tulare County Hazmat team is on scene of a call regarding 63 people who were sprayed with pesticides.This is why this crap should be banned !!!! NOW !!!!!!
Yes Needs to be banned. Most chemicals need to be banned. And they want my $ for cancer research. Chemical companies and big pharma FDA doing us in!