Greg Loarie, Attorney, California Office: “Parents and teachers certainly have a right to know when toxic pesticides are being sprayed right next to their schools, and this process needs to be public and needs to be meaningful. What we really want, at the end of the day, is we want the poisoning to stop. We…

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, Safe Ag Safe Schools, Center for Farmworker Families, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, and Californians for Pesticide Reform petition for judicial review of six permits allowing the use of highly toxic, restricted pesticides near three schools in the Pajaro Valley area of Monterey County.

Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, can help protect us from harmful chemicals. But first, the government must fully enforce it.

Court of Appeal lets stand lower court’s decision invalidating California’s approval of insecticide that causes colony collapse

A California court ruled in favor of beekeepers represented by Earthjustice, shielding pollinators from the pesticide sulfoxaflor.

Paraquat damages farmworkers’ respiratory system, their kidneys, and their eyes. Help us urge the EPA to ban it.

Se permitirá a Gharda y a la agricultura industrial vender y utilizar clorpirifos para la temporada de cultivo de 2024

Gharda and industrial agriculture will be allowed to sell and use chlorpyrifos for the 2024 growing season

The decision protects the health of farmworkers who would otherwise face heightened risk of antibiotic-resistant infections, pollinators, and imperiled species

Children will yet again be in harm’s way as EPA reconsiders the food ban

The 8th Circuit’s decision vacates the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule that revoked all tolerances for chlorpyrifos, thereby banning the use and presence of the neurotoxic pesticide on the foods we eat.

Advocates praise bill introduction in Congress and urge EPA for a full ban

Notice of warning from Environmental Protection Agency to CEO of Management and Training Corporation (MTC) re: disinfectant use at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. MTC advised to take all necessary action to ensure that any further use of pesticides takes place in accordance with the directions and precautionary statements on the pesticide label, and in full compliance with the provisions of FIFRA. Failure to do so could be subject to further enforcement action.

Chlorpyrifos-methyl is being phased out, but dozens of similar harmful organophosphate pesticides remain in food

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “The initial paraquat risk assessment was scientifically and legally baseless. The key question now is whether EPA uses this new opportunity to follow the science and protect the public from this incredibly dangerous pesticide.”

Organophosphates are linked to intellectual disabilities and cancer