Earthjustice is seeking to intervene on behalf of community groups to defend an ordinance that limits harmful pesticide spraying near homes, schools and waterways. The island’s county council passed the ordinance in the wake of repeated incidents of schoolchildren and other residents suffering symptoms of pesticide exposure, and inaction by Hawaiʻi authorities.

After a long battle with Earthjustice teaming up with farmworkers and their advocates, a dangerous insecticide has forever been banished from use.