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Previous Newsletters are archived below, sorted newest to oldest: 

03/13/2026 | Act Now! Stop the feds from taking away California’s right to regulate pesticides

02/09/2026 | 1st DPR EJAC Meeting

08/25/2025 | Pesticide reform advocates selected for DPR’s first-ever Environmental Justice Advisory Committee

07/23/2025 | URGENT: Prevent Pesticide Preemption & Immunity for Pesticide Manufacturers!

05/07/2025 | PLEASE JOIN US! Webinar launch of our new pesticide mapping tool May 13 at noon

07/18/2024 | Notification and AB 1864 

05/10/2024 | Support AB 1864

12/06/2023 | Notification must include exact location

11/08/2023 | Racist new rule for 1,3-D

10/10/2023 | AB 652 Signed!

09/28/2023 | AB 652 Alert

09/08/2023 | Take Action! Tell your Senator to support an EJ Advisory Committee at DPR!

08/22/2023 | Call your Senators to Support an EJ Advisory Committee at  DPR! 

06/29/2023 | AB 652: We need an EJ Advisory Committee at the Department of Pesticide Regulation!

10/25/2022 | Join us for DPR Pesticide Notification Workshops November 7-10

06/22/2022 | Californians demand the right to know in advance about pesticide use

05/31/2022 | Announcing changes in CPR’s leadership team

05/19/2022 | State Budget

11/12/2021 | Pesticide notification public comment

10/27/2021 | A New Study: Pesticides used in California are linked to childhood cancers

06/23/2021 | Call on the Governor and Legislature to Fund a Resilient, Just and Health Food & Farming System!

06/14/2021 | City of Soledad and Greenfield Union School District Demand Public Notice

05/24/2021 | Join us: Notification Now! Online Zoom News Conference Thursday May 27 at noon

04/20/2021 | Pajaro Valley Schools in Watsonville Join the Call for Pesticide Notification

03/19/2021 | Greenfield to Ag Commissioner: Tell us what pesticides are being sprayed in Monterey County

02/10/2021 | Fankhauser to Shafter: Drop Dead

07/01/2020 | Petition alert: Tell us before you spray pesticides near us!

02/25/2020 | Shafter wins big as state agrees to include pesticides in air quality plans

10/21/2019 | California weighs restrictions on cancer-causing fumigant pesticide

10/09/2019 | The end of the road for chlorpyrifos in California!

07/23/2019 | Trump’s EPA once again declines to ban chlorpyrifos

06/18/2019 | Pesticide Use Remains near record high in California

04/22/2019 | UCLA Law: Ag Commissioners Aren’t Doing Their Job

11/16/2018 | Chlorpyrifos is a Toxic Air Contaminant

10/11/2018 | California, it’s time to ban chlorpyrifos

07/09/2018 | California moves a step closer to a chlorpyrifos ban

05/03/2018 | Spike in pesticide use continues, new DPR data show

03/15/2018 | Greenfield School District passes historic pesticide safety resolution

02/16/2018 | Back to the drawing board: DPR ordered to strengthen chlorpyrifos Risk Assessment

12/07/2017 | A win for science: Chlorpyrifos becomes a Prop. 65-listed chemical

11/06/2017 | New rule limiting pesticide use near schools adopted in California

10/05/2017 | Once again, DPR fails to take action on chlorpyrifos

08/31/2017 | California slow-walks decision on brain-harming chlorpyrifos  

07/18/2017 | Hundreds rally in Sac against brain-harming chlorpyrifos

07/05/2017 | Join us for a day of action in Sacramento: Ban Chlorpyrifos in California!

06/01/2017 | The chlorpyrifos issue

05/04/2017 | Tell Gov. Brown: This brain-harming pesticide must go! 

03/29/2017 | Tell DPR to strengthen their proposed rules for pesticide use near schools

03/16/2017 | DPR weakens schools regulation

03/09/2017 | DPR gets schooled on chronic exposure

02/07/2017 | Good news alert: DPR improves its air monitoring network 

12/01/2016 | Final DPR hearing on schools regs is tonight in Salinas at 6pm

10/03/2016 | DPR releases weak draft schools reg

08/29/2016 | New study from UCB CHAMACOS: living near pesticides during pregnancy linked to lower IQ in kids

07/21/2016 | What a Day! Protect California Kids Sacramento Day of Action July 12

06/07/2016 | Protect California kids 20th anniversary save the date

05/01/2016 | Growing body of scientific evidence links pesticide use to health harms for kids – PAN study funds

04/12/2016 | Reminder – regional workshop today in Spreckels

03/31/2016 | Please attend a regional workshop to help protect communities from hazardous fumigant pesticides

03/17/2016 | Demand DPR better protect communities from fumigants

02/22/2016 | Pesticides used in combo linked to increased cancer risk – UCLA study finds

01/13/2016 | Attend an EPA public meeting on response to civil rights violations

12/14/2015 | Activist in the spotlight: Maria Brito

10/29/2015 | CARB GHG Reduction strategy

10/21/2015 | Remembering Teresa DeAnda

05/15/2015 | Please attend a regional workshop to help protect schoolchildren from hazardous pesticide

05/06/2015 | CPR briefs decision makers on how pesticides impact children’s health

04/01/2015 | DPR fumigant notification workshop alert

11/17/2014 | The Dark Side of the Strawberry – CIR exposé

10/27/2014 | Teresa’s Passing

10/15/2014 | Legislative round up – big gains for pesticide reform in California

08/05/2014 | Chlorpyrifos webinar invite

08/05/2014 | Chlorpyrifos action alert

05/28/2014 | GMO Labeling action alert 

05/21/2014 | Pesticide use near CA schools worse than previously thought 

06/27/2013 | Demand Safe Strawberry Fields Today!