Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Paraquat damages farmworkers’ respiratory system, their kidneys, and their eyes. Help us urge the EPA to ban it.

At least 58 countries have banned paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide, because of its severe health harms

Earthjustice urges the Senate to hold the industry accountable and ensure consumer and worker safety at all levels of our food supply chain

Advocates praise bill introduction in Congress and urge EPA for a full ban

The decision protects the health of farmworkers who would otherwise face heightened risk of antibiotic-resistant infections, pollinators, and imperiled species

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “We have an agricultural system where everybody eats and everybody wears clothes made from cotton, but the people who pay the cost for that are overwhelmingly immigrant and Latino farmworkers who are just bearing unbelievable harm. Our society tolerates levels of risk in California’s Central Valley that…

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered to ban chlorpyrifos within 60 days

Farmworkers from across the nation to meet with Congress to demand basic protections from exposure to hazardous pesticides

Two million farmworkers are now more vulnerable to pesticide poisoning

Delaying pesticide training materials puts the health of workers and families at risk

Advocates from across the country urge EPA to swiftly ban chlorpyrifos citing unacceptable risks to farmworkers and their families

It’s National Farmworker Awareness Week, and people from all walks of life are taking action. They’re speaking up for their families and communities, advocating for stronger protections and redesigning agricultural practices to eliminate pesticides.

Leaders call for strong standards to protect vulnerable workers from toxic exposure

Farmworker and environmental health advocates praise Senate for preserving pesticide rules

18-year-old Selena Zelaya of Mount Dora, FL, was one of about a dozen farmworker advocates who traveled to D.C. to lobby for farmworker protections against harmful pesticides. Selena’s mother and father are farmworkers and from a young age she began advocating on behalf of them and others. Selena shares why she is so committed to the fight for farmworker protections.

Every year, approximately 20,000 agricultural workers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — or as many as 300,000, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office — suffer pesticide poisoning. The immediate aftermath of acute pesticide poisoning can result in rashes, vomiting, and even death. In the long-term, pesticide exposure has been associated…