“Every home is a school”: State orders counties to protect children learning at home from pesticide exposure
Sacramento: Counties should use their full authority to guarantee the same protections from pesticide exposure at home that are already legally required for schools - and be prepared to back it up with stiff fines. That’s according to new executive guidance...
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PETITION ALERT: The public isn’t told when hazardous pesticides are used nearby – and we don’t think that’s right
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TAKE ACTION: California needs safe alternatives to chlorpyrifos and other hazardous pesticides
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Dear Governor Newsom: Pesticides are Air Contaminants too!
Governor Gavin Newsom California State Capitol #1114 Sacramento, CA 95814 November 13, 2019 Re: CARB and Air District authority to regulate pesticide Toxic Air Contaminants Dear Governor Newsom, On behalf of the Shafter AB 617 Steering Committee, Californians for...
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California mulls new rules for cancer-causing pesticide 1,3 D or Telone
On heels of chlorpyrifos ban, public health and farmworker advocates call for restrictions on widely-used drift-prone fumigant Sacramento: Dozens of residents from across the state converged on the capital today to weigh in on new restrictions under discussion for the...
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California announces end for brain-harming pesticide
Chlorpyrifos use will be banned in December 2020 Sacramento: In a historic win for public health, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation today announced a decisive end to the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos in California. Dow and other manufacturers...
read moreFarmworker communities applaud California chlorpyrifos cancellation proceedings, alternatives work group
Community members relieved, urge speedy process Media contacts: Angel Garcia, angel@pesticidereform.org, 559-667-2966 & Byanka Santoyo, bsantoyo@crpe-ej.org, 661-865-0458 Sacramento, CA: This morning the Newsom administration sent notices to Dow and other...
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Pesticide use remains near record high in California, state data show
Sacramento, CA: Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Included in this total are increases in use of the brain-damaging...
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Governor Newsom Announces Cancellation of Brain-harming Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Dow’s cheap and devastating nerve gas is the first pesticide ever to be cancelled in California Sacramento, CA: California’s farmworking communities will soon get a reprieve from a devastating pesticide linked to permanent brain damage in young children. A little more...
read moreCPR to Department of Pesticide Regulation: Fix your broken permit system
April 25, 2019 Teresa Marks, Acting Director Department of Pesticide Regulation 1001 I Street Sacramento, CA 95812 Dear Acting Director Marks, In March, researchers from UCLA Law School published Governance on the Ground: Evaluating the Role of County Agricultural...
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COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
Could this be the beginning of a new food economy?"We need to transition from having only a very small percentage of the population producing all of the food"
Transitioning to a Crisis-Resilient Agriculture | Bioneers
Keeping half the planet in wilderness, controlling population and developing self-renewing farm-fertility are the keys to creating a crisis-resilient food system. An interview with Fred Kirschenmann, a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.COVID-RELATED STRIKES HIT WASHINGTON'S APPLE SHEDS
COVID-RELATED STRIKES HIT WASHINGTON'S APPLE SHEDS
COVID-RELATED STRIKES HIT WASHINGTON'S APPLE SHEDS By David Bacon Capital & Main, 5/14/2020 capitalandmain.com/covid-related-stri...