First-in-the-World Online Pesticide Notification System
Shafter, CA: For decades farmworker communities across California have demanded the right to know beforehand what, when, and where hazardous agricultural pesticides will be applied. They have wanted to be able to take safety precautions against exposure to pesticides...
Farmworker communities disrupt public hearing, protesting regulation of cancer-causing pesticide as racist
"Die-in" action with chants of "DPR, you can't hide; we can see your racist side" Salinas, CA: On Thursday January 16, the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) hearing at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas (1 Main St.) on its draft regulation of...
Farmworker communities protest regulation of cancer-causing pesticide as unscientific and racist
Photo credit: Ruby Lee Schembari — Santa Cruz Local Public hearing Thursday January 16 at 5:45pm National Steinbeck Center, Salinas The Department of Pesticide Regulation continues to allow for 14 times more 1,3-dichloropropene in the air than the official State...
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“Considering the fact that EPA’s own scientists have publicly expressed concern about EPA risk analyses for organophosphates not adequately addressing exposures to infants and children, it is unconscionable that the EPA continues to regulate OPs based on industry’s economic interests rather than sound, health-protective science,” said Margaret Reeves, Ph.D., senior scientist at Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network.
Organophosphate Pesticides Are Toxic, But the EPA Still Hasn’t Banned Them
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Organophosphates are a dangerous class of pesticides toxic enough to cause death, and Earthjustice is suing Trump’s EPA for their lack of action around their use.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Just some of those (Left to right: Francisco Rodriguez, Noemi Chico, Woody Rehanek, Alexia Rangel, Karen Cameron, Josh Ezekiel, and Jacob Sandoval) who attended this morning's court hearing in Monterey over our lawsuit against the Ag Commissioner and DPR to follow the law when approving or disapproving restricted (the most dangerous) pesticide applications. It is now in the Judge's hands.
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"Syngenta has always maintained that the evidence linking paraquat to Parkinson’s disease is 'fragmentary' and 'inconclusive.' But numerous scientific studies have found that paraquat damages cells in the brain in ways that can lead to Parkinson’s."
With trial approaching, Syngenta settles paraquat lawsuit brought by Parkinson's patient
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By Carey Gillam Less than a month ahead of what would have been the first US trial over allegations that a popular weedkiller made by agrochemical giant Syngenta causes Parkinson’s disease, the part...1 CommentsComment on Facebook