Remembering David Chatfield, CPR’s Founding Director
It is with heavy hearts that we write today to let you know that we lost our founding director and cherished friend and mentor, David Chatfield on December 4. David served as Executive Director of Californians for Pesticide Reform from 1997-2011, helping shape the...
Calls Mount for Advance Warning of Ag Pesticide Spray
Sacramento - Californians in farmworker communities gathered Thursday online as well as in-person, calling on the state and county governments to web-post advance warning of agricultural pesticide use, citing the known health impacts of pesticide exposure and the...
Pesticides on your food in California: An illegal helping once a week
State finds illegal pesticide residues on 1 in 25 pieces of produce Sacramento: Illegal levels of pesticides were detected on more than 1 in 25 pieces of produce sampled in California, according to recently released data by the California Department of Pesticide...
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"David's leadership at Californians for Pesticide Reform shaped the organization into a model of cooperation, transparency and collective movement work in California and the United States. He leaves a legacy of the most comprehensive school and day care pesticide-free buffer zone regulation in the nation. As he did throughout his career, he possessed a deep commitment to ensuring that leadership came from those most directly affected by pesticides in California."
David Chatfield Obituary (1945 - 2021) San Francisco Chronicle
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View David Chatfield's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.A life well lived. An inspiration to others.
Nayamin Martinez, regarding notification for upcoming pesticide applications: "The residents have the right to know today, they had the right to know yesterday. And they don't need to wait until 2024, especially because the information is already at the tip of the fingers of the [County Ag] commissioners. They receive a notice of intent every time a farmer is going to apply a restricted material. And what we are asking is that you have information, just make it public put it in a website, so that anybody that wants to know has access to that information."
LISTEN: Nayamin Martinez on organizing for farmworker justice
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"The only sustainable way to move forward is if we stop using pesticides."EPA Proposes Reforms to Assess New Pesticides’ Harms to Endangered Species
EPA Proposes Reforms to Assess New Pesticides’ Harms to Endangered Species
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s pesticide office announced new policies today designed to address the agency’s multi-decade failure to assess harms to endangered species before approving new pesticides. For decades the EPA has failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act’s clear requ...