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Lawsuit pushes for ban on organophosphates after years of government delay and known harms to children

Farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphates pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and field crops. In utero exposures to organophosphates are linked to autism, attention deficit disorders and impaired cognition in school-age children. They also cause countless instances of farmworker and community poisonings every year.

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

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

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

Pesticide transparency enables researchers, health professionals, and others to tackle harm to humans, wildlife, and the environment

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

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

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

Find out what foods have high residues of these pesticide, where they are used, and how we are exposed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Stein, Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “We’re glad that U.S.D.A. recognized that its blatantly unlawful purge of climate-change-related information is harming farmers and communities across the country.”