La EPA debe establecer una prohibición total de los órganofosfatos. Punto. Y mientras tanto—a raíz de los nefastos efectos en la salud que causan estos pesticidas—la agencia debe tomar medidas preventivas como la instalación de zonas que actúen como barreras.

The EPA should ban the pesticides now under review and protect against them in the meantime with buffer zones.

After five years, EPA takes no additional action to protect children from pesticide spray drift

Earthjustice litigation and policy work is targeting a number of looming or ongoing environmental threats.

After five years, EPA’s only response is that it will make no change to existing practices and plans

Farmworkers are continually exposed to dangerous pesticides

Public interest groups urge immediate pesticide protections in areas where children live, learn and play

This is the second in a two part series on protections for farmworkers from pesticides. Read part one, Pesticides Taking Toll on Farmworkers, and the accompanying special feature, Pesticides: The Workplace Hazard The EPA Is Ignoring. Nobody told Reina Lemus de Zelaya that her job as a farmworker was hazardous not only to her…

Reforms outdated law that leaves Americans vulnerable to toxic chemicals

Americans need a law that will keep them safe from toxic chemicals—before they are allowed to enter the market. And that’s why we should be thanking Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). Today, Sen. Lautenberg and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), joined by 27 other senators, introduced the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2013,” a landmark bill that seeks…

Your favorite four-legged companion may get a dose of toxic chemicals the next time you throw him/her a chew toy. That’s the conclusion of an as-yet unpublished study, which found that dogs that chew on plastic toys may be exposed to hormone-altering chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates. The new study, conducted at Texas…

Sign on to petition for long term protections, immediate no-spray buffer zones where kids live, learn, play

This letter, authored by Congressmen Raul Grijalva and Keith Ellison, was sent to EPA in support of our petition seeking protections for children from pesticide drift.

Petition to EPA includes immediate no-spray buffer zones around homes, schools, day care centers for most toxic pesticides