Protecting People From Pesticides

December 5, 2014 | Feature

Pesticide Exposure in Muck Fields & Ferneries in Florida

No one else in this country faces a more poisonous, unregulated workplace than the agricultural worker. These stories of agricultural workers in Florida demonstrate the need for stronger protections.

November 30, 2019 | In the News: Albany Times-Union

Ban Pesticide To Protect Humans, Food, Planet

An op-ed by Tyler Smith, Staff Scientist, Earthjustice

November 25, 2019 | Article

This Thanksgiving, Remember that Hands Grow Your Food

The people who grow our food deserve the same health protections that you and I enjoy. This Thanksgiving, you can take action to help them.

July 18, 2019 | Press Release

La Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Trump Permite Uso De Nocivo Pesticida En Vegetales y Frutas

El clorpirifós está relacionado con discapacidades intelectuales entre menores y es peligroso para trabajadores en el campo

July 18, 2019 | Legal Document

EPA Chlorpyrifos Decision

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos can still be used on food, although mainstream science says this pesticide is unsafe for children and farmworkers. This decision meets the deadline ordered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the EPA to make a final decision on a petition to ban chlorpyrifos on food.

July 18, 2019 | Press Release

Trump’s EPA Keeps Brain-damaging Pesticide in Fruits and Vegetables

Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning disabilities in children and unsafe to farmworkers

April 30, 2019 | Press Release: Victory

Nueva York Prohíbe Pesticida que Causa Daños Cerebrales

El uso del Clorpirifós, el cual está relacionado con discapacidades intelectuales entre los niños, será prohibido en el 2021

April 30, 2019 | Press Release: Victory

New York Bans Brain-damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Chlorpyrifos, linked to intellectual disabilities in children, will be phased out 2021

April 24, 2019 | Video

¿Clorpiri-qué? El pesticida tóxico que todos comemos

Si alguna vez has comido manzanas, brócoli, naranjas, maíz o cualquiera de las frutas y verduras más comunes, definitivamente has estado expuesto al pesticida tóxico clorpirifós.

April 24, 2019 | Video

Chlorpyri-wha? The Toxic Pesticide We All Eat

An animated explainer of the toxic pesticide known as chlorpyrifos, and the legal battle to ban it from our lives.

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