State Orders Kern Ag Commissioner to Give Advance Notice of Pesticide Use in Shafter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2021 Ag Commissioner refuses, vows to keep pesticide use secret Shafter, CA. – Public health advocates and residents of the Kern County town of Shafter are applauding the state for taking steps to implement a notification requirement...
Pesticide use in California remains at record high, new data show
Pesticide use is significantly higher in majority Latinx counties Sacramento: Agricultural pesticide use in California remains at a near-record high, according to data quietly released at the end of the year by the state agency responsible for tracking pesticide use....
Thank you Gov. Newsom for proposing increased pesticide fees
January 8, 2021 The statewide coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform applauds Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration for its commitment to better protect the health of all Californians by instituting an increased tiered mill fee in the proposed 2021-22 budget. A...
Number of farmworkers sickened by pesticides more than doubled in one year, according to state report
No apparent violation of the law in almost one-third of poisoning incidents points to the need for greater protections and notification Sacramento, CA: Before the Covid-19 pandemic starkly exposed the unique vulnerability of “essential” food system workers,...
After Chlorpyrifos: What Comes Next?
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA: What comes next after the ban of one of California’s most widely-used agricultural pesticides? Today the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released recommendations from a workgroup convened by Governor Newsom last May to find...
Dear DPR Director Dolcini: The Public Has The Right To Know!
June 30, 2020 Director Val Dolcini via email val.dolcini@cdpr.ca.gov Dear Director Dolcini, Thank you for meeting with us on June 11 to discuss the need to establish the right to know in advance about nearby hazardous agricultural pesticide use in California. As you...
“Every home is a school”: State orders counties to protect children learning at home from pesticide exposure
Sacramento: Counties should use their full authority to guarantee the same protections from pesticide exposure at home that are already legally required for schools - and be prepared to back it up with stiff fines. That’s according to new executive guidance...
PETITION ALERT: The public isn’t told when hazardous pesticides are used nearby. We demand the right to know!
Can't read the warning? California keeps information about hazardous drift-prone pesticide applications secret from the public.
TAKE ACTION: California needs safe alternatives to chlorpyrifos and other hazardous pesticides
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...
One of so many reasons to celebrate the life of Cruz Reynoso: "As director of California Rural Legal Assistance ... in the late 1960s he led efforts to ensure farmworkers’ access to sanitation facilities in the fields and to ban the use of the carcinogenic pesticide DDT."
First Latino justice on California’s high court dies at 90
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Cruz Reynoso, a son of migrant workers who worked in the fields as a child and went on to become the first Latino state Supreme Court justice in California history, has died. He was 90.Bianca Lopez, Valley Improvement Project: "We want to know where and when those 200 million pounds [of pesticides] are being sprayed before it happens, not years after.”
No More Secrets: CA Needs Community Pesticide Notification
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Living near fields where pesticides are applied is dangerous, particularly for children and pregnant women. However, the California communities who bear this burden are kept in the dark about poisons sprayed near their homes because the local Agricultural Agencies (County...Dr. Nathan Donley: “Study after study indicates the unchecked use of pesticides across hundreds of millions of acres each year is poisoning the organisms critical to maintaining healthy soils. But our regulators have been ignoring the harm to these important ecosystems for decades.”
New Study: Agricultural Pesticides Cause Widespread Harm to Soil Health, Threaten Biodiversity
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A new study published today by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to healthy soil, biodiversity and soil carbon sequestration to fight climate change. Yet those harms are...