The Latest by Kari Birdseye

Advocacy Communications Manager

Kari Birdseye worked at Earthjustice from 2011–2016, as a national press secretary and on advocacy campaigns protecting our health and the environment from the impacts of pesticides and toxic chemicals.

November 11, 2015

Stronger Protections in Store for Farmworkers and Families

By Kari Birdseye / Headquarters Office

The EPA signals stronger safeguards against pesticide exposure.

Ana Alicia Torres Aguirre hugs Earthjustice attorney Andrea Delgado.

October 2, 2015

Updated Standard Brings Better Protections For Our Farmworkers

By Kari Birdseye / Headquarters Office

What’s good and why in the updated Agriculture Worker Protection Standard announced this week.

September 22, 2015

Vinicultora de Napa Dice ‘¿No Pesticidas? ¡No Hay Problema!’

By Kari Birdseye

Ceja Vineyards: un ejemplo excelente de cómo llevar la siembra y al mismo tiempo administrar un negocio sustentablemente.

Amelia Ceja speaks to Earthjustice about her sustainable vineyard and winery.

September 22, 2015

Napa Vintner Says ‘No Pesticides, No Problem!’

By Kari Birdseye / Headquarters Office

Ceja Vineyards: A good case of one family who respects the land and the people who make their business sustainable.

A farmer spraying a field with pesticides.

August 17, 2015

Court Lays a Smackdown on the EPA for Its Pesticide Inaction

By Kari Birdseye / Headquarters Office

A federal court has ordered the EPA to finally decide whether to ban chlorpyrifos, citing the agency’s own findings on health dangers to farmworkers, children and rural communities posed by this toxic pesticide.

August 7, 2015

Broken System: The Current State of Pesticides Regulations in 30 Minutes

By Kari Birdseye / Northwest Office

Managing attorney Patti Goldman discusses how we got in the poisonous pesticide mess and what Earthjustice has been doing to correct it over the past decade.