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Cancer-Causing Pesticide Exceeds California’s Own Safety Trigger, Requiring State to Act
Los datos publicados discretamente en línea muestran que el nivel estaba un 31% por encima del nivel de acción del estado. Lindsay, CA — Los datos de monitoreo de la calidad del aire publicados recientemente por el estado revelan que el nivel promedio anual del...
New Bill Targets Toxic “Forever Chemicals” on California Crops
AB 1603 sets a timeline to end PFAS pesticides by 2035 Tulare, CA — Currently, an estimated 2.5 million pounds of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” pesticides are used annually on California crops, resulting in PFAS residues on produce consumed across the nation....
Pesticide Spill in Siskiyou County Highlights Urgent Need for California to Join More Than 70 Countries in Banning Highly Toxic Pesticide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Paraquat is too dangerous to use and too dangerous to transport A paraquat spill in the Dorris area of Siskiyou County yesterday forced residents to shelter in place for hours, underscoring the serious and immediate dangers posed by one of the...
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Email from Californians for Pesticide Reform Reject Farm Bill and Restore Accountability AB 1603 is passed by Senate Committees— Requires PFAS Pesticide Use Reporting AB 1603 (Shultz) advanced throu...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
To summarize: 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D or Telone) causes cancer and is a Toxic Air Contaminant. It's a fumigant pesticide, so it drifts for miles.
It's banned in 40 countries, but millions of pounds are used each year in California.
After almost ten years of litigation, DPR made two conflicting rules: one for people who work near treated fields, and one far less protective rule for people who live nearby. (Yes, most farmworkers are also residents 🤷♀️)
Since those regulations took effect, 1,3-D USE and EMISSIONS have both gone UP.
So is it working? Back to the drawing board DPR.
www.pesticidereform.org/cancer-causing-pesticide-exceeds-californias-own-safety-trigger/
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Thanks to Clearya and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we look forward to a greater understanding of the health risks of all ingredients in the pesticide products used in the San Joaquin Valley. Stay tuned!🌿 From store aisles to farm fields - let's go!
Big news: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting Clearya's first step into agriculture.
For years, Clearya has made sense of chemical data in millions of consumer products. Now we're pointing the same AI at something new: California's pesticide-use records, which are challenging to gather, interpret, and use in a timely manner.
Our platform, Clearya Insights, will collect them, standardize them, enrich them with specially trained AI, and add safety context from authoritative scientific sources. The result will be data that communities, growers, researchers, and agencies can more easily work with.
We're starting in the San Joaquin Valley, in collaboration with Californians for Pesticide Reform - stay tuned for updates!
Same platform. A whole new field. 🌱
👉 Read the announcement: www.clearya.com/blog/clearya-insights-pesticides
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