CPR 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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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...
read more“I used to walk to the groves when I was pregnant — I had no idea that I could be exposing myself and my baby,” [Fidelia Morales] said. “The irony is I left Los Angeles in part to get away from all the pollution. I had no idea I’d end up somewhere worse.”
States Weigh Banning A Widely Used Pesticide Even Though EPA Won’t
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The pesticide chlorpyrifos has been linked to developmental problems in children. Some state and federal lawmakers want the chemical banned, but federal regulators are fighting to keep it on the ma…Read on for CPR's response to California Department of Pesticide Regulation regarding the UCLA report that documented widespread failure by county ag commissioners to follow the law before issuing permits for restricted pesticides. No ag commissioner - none - was found to be considering alternatives to chlorpyrifos, as state law demands. #BanChlorpyrifos
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The moving story of one woman's quest to understand whether Dow's pesticide chlorpyrifos caused her children's brain malformations #BanChlorpyrifos
A Journey Into My Family History, the Chemical Industry, and Genetics
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My quest to understand what caused my children’s birth defects