AB 1864 (Connolly) passed out of Assembly ESTM and Education Committees! Next stop, Appropriations Committee. Click for more info about this commonsense protection for kids at school from pesticide drift
Teachers, Community Groups, and Farmworkers File Lawsuit Challenging Toxic Pesticide Approvals Near Public Schools in Monterey County
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During budget deficit, Governor Newsom invests in safer agriculture practices
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State Proposes Precedent-setting Pesticide Notification Rule
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Support AB 1963 to stop Paraquat! #ParaquatAnne Katten (MPH), CRLAF’s Pesticide & Work Health/Safety Specialist, co-wrote an article about why EPA’s claim that the pesticide paraquat is safe is actually false.
Exposure to paraquat has dangerously high health risks, including damage to the kidneys and lungs and severe burning. In fact, ingesting a single teaspoon can be fatal… and there is no antidote. New research also reaffirms that paraquat exposure is linked to increased risk of Parkinson’s Disease.
While this pesticide is banned in 58 countries, the EPA continues to reject extensive evidence of paraquat’s harmful effects. 10 million pounds of the pesticide are still being used in the United States every year on crops like citrus, almonds, artichokes, garlic, pears, strawberries, and grapes. More than 425,000 pounds of paraquat was sprayed in 2021 in California alone, with over 3/4 of the total used in just 8 San Joaquin Valley counties.
The EPA admitted that farmworkers could be harmed by paraquat, but still doubled down and concluded that, “the risks were outweighed by the benefits.”
Read the full article here: www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community-voices/community-voices-the-epa-s-claim-that-paraquat-is-sa...
#environmentaljustice #farmworkers #ruralhealth #pesticides #pesticidesafety #epa #safety #paraquat #CRLAF Center for Biological Diversity
"Chloropicrin is listed as a banned choking agent by the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ...
German forces fired the gas against Allied troops during World War I in one of the first uses of a chemical weapon."
Chloropicrin is banned in the battlefields (and for all uses in the European Union), but is the 5th most used pesticide by pounds in California ag fields, including right next to elementary schools and daycares.
Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says
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The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents "as a method of warfare" in Ukraine. We support #AB1864 (Connolly), which increases protections for children from exposure to hazardous #pesticides at school! This commonsense bill will make sure existing protections can be enforced.
Here's our team with Asm. Connolly after the bill passed out of Assembly Education Committee last week!
We promote the use of environmentally safe rodent control by putting Mother Nature to work for you. I started this 15 years ago in Southern California and the subject has grown by leaps and bounds from those days. Continue the battle, well done!