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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Pesticide Use Near Record High in California
Sacramento, CA: Agricultural pesticide use in California remains at a near-record high, according to data quietly released this week by the state agency responsible for tracking pesticide use. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) latest numbers...
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Growing Olives Without Pesticides in the San Joaquin Valley
Kanwarjit Boparai | Olive Farmer By Joan Cusick Kanwarjit Boparai practices and teaches veterinary medicine, but he believes that agriculture “is in my blood.” “My family is from Punjab, India, which is sort of a breadbasket of India, and California is sort of a...
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Six Companies Fined for Pesticide Violations in Bakersfield Incident
Almost 100 workers sickened by hazardous pesticides drifting from nearby fields Bakersfield, CA – Six companies were slapped with almost $50,000 in fines for eleven violations related to a pesticide drift incident in August that affected nearly 100 workers in...
read more"Latinos who are exposed to pesticides in their workplaces are twice as likely to have cardiovascular disease compared with Latinos who are not exposed to pesticides at work, according to a new study published in the journal Heart."
Pesticide exposure raises risk for cardiovascular disease among Latino workers
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Latinos who are exposed to pesticides in their workplaces are twice as likely to have cardiovascular disease compared with Latinos who are not exposed to pesticides at work, according to a new study published in the journal Heart.Why won't it link? can't find the page to read it
Agroecology is the future:
"In the postwar years, hoping to increase food production, the government paid landowners to destroy their hedges to make way for the larger tractors needed to tend the larger fields of industrial-scale farms... Back then, the government couldn’t be bothered about beetles and butterflies.
Between 1947 and 1985, 100,000 miles of hedge were lost — one-quarter of England’s stock, enough to girdle the planet four times.
The hedge apocalypse did far more than spoil the view corridor. It created wildlife deserts."
How hippies, farmers and Prince Charles are preserving Britain’s hedges
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An ax-driven art with ancient roots, hedgelaying honors history while shaping the future.“A lot of people have trouble with the term ‘agroecology’ ... It’s all about giving nature the best chance to grow in harmony. It’s exciting to see so many aspiring farmers and policy advocates who are seeking nature’s balance.”
