Library Search

The Environmental Protection Agency knows that organophosphates can cause long-term developmental harm in children. However, they are now disavowing their findings. Tell EPA to ban organophosphates.

Behind every bite of salad in the break room, every fruit in a lunch box, every meal at dinner, lies the hand of a farmworker — drenched in pesticides, soaked in sweat, and now, likely facing the risk of deportation.

Acephate has been linked to low IQ, attention deficit disorders, and autism 

Proposed rule allows continued use of neurotoxic pesticide on 11 crops, despite links to irreversible harm in children

Decision ignores established science and puts children and farmworkers at risk

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

Report shows exposure to organophosphates linked to intellectual disabilities and cancer

Advocates praise bill introduction in Congress as they call on EPA for a full ban

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

Biological Opinion: Environmental Protection Agency's registration of chlorpyrifos, malathion, and diazinon. Chlorpyrifos pesticide harms salmon and orcas.

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

Organophosphates are linked to intellectual disabilities and cancer

Children and farmworkers secure long-awaited protections

Visualizing the widespread extent of agricultural pesticide usage for 14 of the most harmful organophosphate pesticides.

With more than a dozen major environmental rules recently finalized, here’s what the administration should do as soon as possible to secure a lasting impact.

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

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

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