case: Victory
August 12, 2014
In 1997, Earthjustice, working on behalf of a number of farmworker and environmental groups, challenged EPA’s authorization of the use of vinclozolin, a dangerous fungicide linked with serious birth defects and other health maladies. In 1997, Erik Nicholson, who worked for Pineros Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, an Oregon farmworkers union, learned that workers were spraying…