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2026
10/01/2026 | 🙌🏽 We Helped Win the PFAS Bill — Now It’s Law!
09/04/2026 | Do Your Job, DPR! Legislature shines spotlight on pesticide regulation
08/05/2026 | 🚨Reject Farm Bill & Participate in Oversight Hearing on DPR in Sacramento
07/08/2026 | 📊 Help track PFAS Pesticides & Weigh in on DPR’s Proposed Enforcement Rules
06/11/2026 | 🚫 Help restrict PFAS Pesticides & Join the SPM Advisory Committee Meeting
05/07/2026 | 🚫Help us ban PFAS pesticides & Submit your & Comment on AMN Expansion
04/08/2026 | 🚨STOP the Farm Bill and Support Ban on PFAS pesticides
03/13/2026 | 🚨Act Now! Stop the feds from taking away California’s right to regulate pesticides
02/09/2026 | 1st DPR EJAC Meeting
2025
2024
2023
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!
2022
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
2021
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
2020
2019
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
2018
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
2017
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
2016
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
2015
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
2014
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
2013
06/27/2013 | Demand Safe Strawberry Fields Today!