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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.

In the News: CNN January 3, 2025

Biden plans to ban some offshore drilling in a way Trump would struggle to undo

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans: “Every president this century has recognized that some areas of the ocean are just too risky or too sensitive to drill.”

In the News: Energy News Network January 2, 2025

A symbolic gesture or Trojan horse? Ohio groups question purpose of ‘green’ nuclear bill

Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “Those constitutional protections are there for a reason. And seeing the General Assembly have blatant disregard for them again and again harms Ohioans. It deprives them of these constitutional rights.”

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.

Organophosphates are acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children
(Austin Valley / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release September 20, 2023

Voices Across the U.S. Demand Ban on Brain-Harming Pesticide by Any Means Necessary

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

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.

In the News: ABC Denver7 June 5, 2024

Suncor faces lawsuit by environmental groups over repeated air pollution violations

Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “The Clean Air Act allows the most affected people to step in when the government either can’t or won’t enforce the laws sufficiently.”

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.

Press Release December 18, 2024

Advocates Demand Stronger Carbon Monoxide Alarm Standards from U.S. Safety Commission

Standards fail to protect against harmful carbon monoxide exposure until levels reach a critical danger point

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

Roishetta Sibley Ozane (left) founded The Vessel Project of Louisiana and co-directs the Gulf South Fossil Fuel Finance Hub. Robert Thompson is an Inupiat guide who has worked to protect the Arctic Refuge from oil drilling.
feature September 3, 2024

Our Energy Future

Uplifting voices across the nation, who are leading the way to cleaner, safer energy sources.

Press Release August 11, 2022

Advocacy Groups Unveil “A Roadmap to Eliminating Lead Poisoning in New York City”

The 2022 Lead Agenda details multi-agency, legislative, budgetary, and replacement action necessary to eliminate childhood toxic lead exposure

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.