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In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
From the Experts December 17, 2024

The Monarch Has Been Proposed for the Endangered Species List. It Still Needs Better Protections From Pesticides.

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

Press Release December 17, 2024

Fifty Experts and Advocates Urge Maryland to Develop Comprehensive Pesticide Data Program for Public Health and Transparency

Pesticide transparency enables researchers, health professionals, and others to tackle harm to humans, wildlife, and the environment

In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 17, 2024

Pollinators Increasingly Disappearing from Pesticide Overuse and Lax Oversight

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

document December 17, 2024

Petition to Develop a Comprehensive Pesticide Data Program under the Maryland Agricultural Code

Maryland Pesticide Education Network, in partnership with Earthjustice and a broad coalition of farmers, scientists, public health experts, businesses, and advocates, petitioned the Maryland Department of Agriculture to comply with state law by creating a comprehensive pesticide data program to increase pesticide use transparency.

Children often experience greater exposure to chlorpyrifos because they eat more fruit for their weight relative to adults. (Annette Dubois / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 2, 2024

EPA Proposes Limited Ban on Chlorpyrifos Pesticide

Proposed rule allows continued use of neurotoxic pesticide on 11 crops, despite links to irreversible harm in children

feature April 9, 2024

What You Need To Know About Chlorpyrifos

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

The United States Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, shown in this concept image, can be built with either a gasoline or electric drivetrain. (USPS)
Update December 12, 2024

Trump May Meddle in Plans to Electrify Postal Mail Trucks

The incoming Trump administration has threatened to cancel the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) groundbreaking plans to electrify its mail truck fleet. Here’s why it can’t do that.

USPS mail trucks make up more than 30% of the federal government’s vehicles.
(Brian Brown / Getty Images)
Press Release December 10, 2024

Earthjustice Responds to Potential Trump Threat to Postal Service’s Electric Mail Truck Fleet

An executive order would be unlawful move that hurts American workers and dirties our air

Press Release August 28, 2024

Agrochemical Giant, AMVAC, Announces Voluntary Suspension of Registration for its DPCA Products

Weeks after EPA’s emergency suspension, American Vanguard will no longer produce or distribute products containing the harmful pesticide.

feature August 4, 2021

Organophosphate Pesticides in the United States

Find out what foods have high residues of these pesticide, where they are used, and how we are exposed.

A farmworker harvesting strawberries in Salinas, about 20 miles from the Pajaro Valley. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release April 4, 2024

Teachers, Community Groups, and Farmworkers File Lawsuit Challenging Toxic Pesticide Approvals Near Public Schools in Monterey County

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

feature August 3, 2021

Naled in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Naled is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Dichlorvos in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Dichlorvos is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Dicrotophos in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Dicrotophos is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Tribufos in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Tribufos is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Chlorpyrifos in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Chlorpyrifos is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Bensulide in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Bensulide is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

feature August 4, 2021

Malathion in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Malathion is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.