Notification Hearings
For Immediate Release: July 8, 2024 Contacts: Angel Garcia, 559-667-2966, angel@pesticidereform.org Bianca Lopez, 209-338-7954, bianca@vip209.org Friday, July 12th Community Calls for Pesticide Notification to Include Location of the Upcoming Application...
Teachers, Community Groups, and Farmworkers File Lawsuit Challenging Toxic Pesticide Approvals Near Public Schools in Monterey County
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 4, 2024 Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides MONTEREY, CA – A coalition has filed a lawsuit challenging the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and Monterey County...
During budget deficit, Governor Newsom invests in safer agriculture practices
January 11, 2024 Contact: Kayla Nichols, kayla@panna.org Jane Sellen, jane@pesticidereform.org On Wednesday, January 10th, Governor Newsom released a request to the California legislature to approve a $33.3 million increase in funds and 117 new positions at the...
State Proposes Precedent-setting Pesticide Notification Rule
Farmworkers call for more transparency about location of planned pesticide applications Lindsay, CA: How can a public health warning system adequately notify the public if the exact location of the health threat is kept secret? That question was posed by dozens of...
State regulation for 1,3-D exposes farmworker communities to dangerously high cancer risk
Racist new rule overwhelmingly impacts Latino communities Lindsay, CA: The statewide coalition Californians for Pesticide Reform unequivocally denounces the regulation finalized today by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for the drift-prone,...
New California Law Gives Farmworkers A Voice On Pesticide Policy
Governor Newsom signs AB 652 into law, establishing an EJ Advisory Committee at DPR SACRAMENTO: Farmworkers and other underrepresented groups impacted by hazardous pesticide exposure will now have a seat at the table where pesticide policy in California is decided,...
Court Orders State Back to the Drawing Board on Cancer-Causing Pesticide
March 17, 2023 For further information contact:Jane Sellen, jane@pesticidereform.orgAngel Garcia, angel@pesticidereform.org Draft regulation for fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene must protect farmworkers who labor near fields Oakland, CA – The Alameda County Superior Court...
Groups File Lawsuit to Require California to Regulate Pesticide-Treated Seeds
Legal challenge calls on state Department of Pesticide Regulation to close loophole on unregulated sale, use of pesticides on seeds SACRAMENTO (February 21, 2023) - Environmental and public health groups filed a legal challenge, seeking to close the California...
Pesticide reform advocates applaud effort to give voice to impacted communities
For immediate release: February 20, 2023 Contact: Jane Sellen, jane@pesticidereform.org Emily Summerlin, esummerlin@panna.org Environmental justice advocates demand an end to the racial disparities of pesticide health impacts (Sacramento, CA) – Environmental justice...
Ignoring science, California will let growers use even more of a cancer-causing pesticide banned in 34 countries
New draft regulation eliminates existing use cap, defies court order to protect farmworkers, and ignores OEHHA state scientists on cancer risk Sacramento,CA: Under a court-ordered deadline to regulate the use of the cancer-causing fumigant pesticide...
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. "Children and adults in agricultural regions of the San Joaquin Valley of California continue to be exposed to pesticides and herbicides" including 1,3-D and chlorpyrifos even after it was banned
Residents in San Joaquin Valley breathe chemical pesticides, according to new study
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A UC Davis Health study found 22 percent of adults and 10 percent of children who participated in an air-quality study in California’s San Joaquin Valley were breathing detectable levels of pesticides.