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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.

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

More than half of all apples in the U.S. were sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use. (Lance Cheung / USDA)
Press Release December 19, 2023

Chlorpyrifos, Previously Banned Neurotoxic Pesticide, Again Allowed on Our Food, Despite Known Harms

Gharda and industrial agriculture will be allowed to sell and use chlorpyrifos for the 2024 growing season

More than half of all apples in the U.S. were sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use. (Lance Cheung / USDA)
Press Release November 2, 2023

In Shocking Decision, 8th Circuit Sends Chlorpyrifos Food Use Ban Back to EPA

Children will yet again be in harm’s way as EPA reconsiders the food ban

feature August 4, 2021

Chlorpyrifos in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Chlorpyrifos is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

Press Release August 4, 2021

EPA Can’t Justify Keeping Chlorpyrifos on Food

New report shows pervasive neurotoxic pesticide impacts millions in the United States

Press Release: Victory August 18, 2021

EPA to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Finally

Children and farmworkers secure long-awaited protections

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.

California activists rallied after a public hearing in 2018 on restricting the uses of chlorpyrifos (Max Whittaker / New York Times)
Update August 18, 2021

The EPA Has Finally Banned the Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos From Food

It’s official: There are no safe uses of chlorpyrifos.

feature August 4, 2021

Chlorpyrifos-methyl in the United States: Harmful Health Effects and Widespread Use

Chlorpyrifos-methyl is one of the most dangerous, widely used organophosphate pesticides that still remain in use in the United States.

Press Release August 7, 2019

Over 80 groups urge Gov. Cuomo to sign Senate bill S5343 and ban brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos

The legislation will protect children and farmworkers in New York, as Trump’s EPA refuses to act

More than half of all apples in the U.S. are sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use. (Lance Cheung / USDA)
Press Release September 22, 2020

EPA Ignores Evidence Chlorpyrifos Causes Permanent Damage To Children’s Brains

Agency fudges the numbers to keep chlorpyrifos in our food

Press Release: Victory July 22, 2021

New York Bans Brain-damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

The new state regulation safeguards children, farmworkers, and communities, additionally protects pollinators and our environment

Press Release March 5, 2021

Over 100 Organizations Urge Biden to Ban Chlorpyrifos

Advocates say the proven brain-harming pesticide has no place on food (or anywhere else)

Under the Obama administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that chlorpyrifos does not meet the legal safety standard and proposed a federal ban. The Trump administration killed the proposed rule in March 2017. (Getty Images)
Press Release December 9, 2019

Children’s Health and Environmental Advocates Call on Governor Cuomo to Sign Legislation Banning Chlorpyrifos

New York State American Academy of Pediatrics, Learning Disabilities Association of New York, Human Rights Watch, and others urge Governor to take action

Under the Obama administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that chlorpyrifos does not meet the legal safety standard and proposed a federal ban. The Trump administration killed the proposed rule in March 2017. (Getty Images)
Press Release February 6, 2020

Largest Chlorpyrifos Producer to Stop Selling the Brain-damaging Pesticide

Yet the Trump administration still refuses a ban

Chlorpyrifos is one of most widely-used pesticides in the U.S. and is responsible for a large percentage of pesticide poisonings reported. (Pgiam / iStockphoto)
Press Release January 5, 2016

More than 80,000 People Urge EPA to Ban Dangerous Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Doctors, scientists, farmers, farmworkers and others from across the country ask for long overdue ban of neurotoxic agricultural chemical

Organophosphates are acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children (Austin Valley / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release February 6, 2019

Wheeler’s EPA Keeps Brain-Damaging Chlorpyrifos In Food, For Now

Court rules to rehear chlorpyrifos case