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    AB 1603 passes Senate Committees

    The bill now only requires that the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) report PFAS pesticide use, allowing new registrations and no future ban.

    Submit your Comment on DPR's Changes to Enforcement Rules

    DPR is proposing amendments to California’s pesticide enforcement regulations, which govern how County Agricultural Commissioners (CACs) address pesticide use violations. 

    ✍🏽 Submit your public comment before July 28

    🙋🏽 Attend a Virtual Public Hearing to offer your oral and/or written comments on July 8, 21, or 28

    Is DPR doing its job?

    We encourage you to attend the Joint Oversight Hearing by the Senate Environmental Quality and Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committees where legislators will examine whether DPR is meeting its mission to protect public health and the environment.

    August 11, 2026

    1:30 pm3:30 pm

    Capitol Annex Swing Space Room 1100

    1021 O Street, Sacramento [view map]

    Reject the Farm Bill and Restore Accountability for Pesticide Manufacturers!

    Thanks to powerful grassroots organizing nationwide, the House passed an amendment to the 2026 Farm Bill. This important change removes a harmful liability shield for pesticide companies and preserves states’ sovereignty to set stronger protections.

    Thank you to everyone who took action to help fight corporate control and protect farmworkers, communities, and our ecologies across the country!

    Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Bayer

    The U.S. Supreme Court just sided with pesticide manufacturer Bayer over people harmed by glyphosate, in a ruling that makes it much harder to hold pesticide companies accountable for the harms caused by their products.

    If the courts won’t hold pesticide companies accountable, California must!

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    To summarize: 1,3-di

    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 an

    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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