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feature November 2, 2023

What You Need To Know About Chlorpyrifos

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment.

In the News: Food & Beverage Insider February 9, 2024

Court decision allows chlorpyrifos use to resume, EPA considers next steps

Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “The actions the agencies are taking now are simply conforming regulations and guidance to the Eighth Circuit decision. Next, EPA will need to decide whether chlorpyrifos is safe for children. In light of the extensive science showing chlorpyrifos causes learning disabilities at low exposure levels, EPA cannot find the pesticide…

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

The Cheswick Generating Station in 2010. Prior to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, oil-burning and coal-burning power plants largely avoided restrictions on emissions of hazardous air pollution. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature March 6, 2024

Historic Environmental Protections are Up Against the Deadline

The Biden administration must get rulemakings over the finish line this spring to solidify climate and health protections ahead of political uncertainty.

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

Document November 2, 2023

8th Circuit Chlorpyrifos Decision (Nov 2023)

The 8th Circuit’s decision vacates the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule that revoked all tolerances for chlorpyrifos, thereby banning the use and presence of the neurotoxic pesticide on the foods we eat.

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: 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

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 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

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